George Bacon Wood
1797–1879
American physician, medical author, and teacher. Attending physician, Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, 1822–44; Pennsylvania Hospital, 1835–59. Professor of chemistry, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1822–31; of materia medica, from 1831. Professor of materia medica and pharmacy, University of Pennsylvania, 1835–50; of the theory and practice of medicine, 1850–60. Helped to revise the United States pharmacopoeia. President of the American Philosophical Society, 1859–79.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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