John Wood
1825–91
Surgeon. Articled to a solicitor, but disliked law. Dispenser, Bradford Infirmary. Studied medicine at King’s College, London, 1846–8. Appointed house surgeon, King’s College Hospital, 1850; demonstrator of anatomy, 1851; assistant surgeon, 1856. Appointed professor of surgery, King’s College, 1871, lecturer on clinical surgery (with Joseph Lister), 1877; emeritus professor of clinical surgery, 1889. Examiner in anatomy and physiology, Royal College of Surgeons, 1875–80; in surgery, 1879–89; in dental surgery, 1883–8; vice-president of the council, 1885; Hunterian Professor, 1884–5. FRS 1871.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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