WOOD, HENRY JAMES (1870—). An English orchestral conductor and composer. Ile re ceived his musical education entirely at the Royal Academy of Music. After 1895 he won for himself a European reputation as the con ductor of the Queen's Hall Symphony, and of the Promenade Concerts. He succeeded in bring ing his orchestra to a rank with the best organ izations of Great Britain. His compositions in elude: the oratorio Saint Dorothea (1880) ; the comic opera Daisy (1890) ; the operettas Re turning the Compliment (1890) and A Hun dred rears Ago (1891) ; and many songs and instrumental numbers.
WOOD, 1-10nAno CURTIS ( S — ) . An American physician, born in Philadelphia, and graduated in medicine at the University of Penn sylvania in 1862. In 1S65 he became established in the practice of his profession as a specialist in therapeutics and nervous diseases. He was professor of botany in the auxiliary faculty of the university, 1866-76; and clinical professor of nervous diseases and professor of therapeutics since 1876. DesideS many monographs on acetic .et her, nitrite of amyl, ergot. quinine, etc., he has published Thermic Firer (1879) ; A Treatise on Therapeutics. Materia Medico, and Toxicology (1871; 7th ed. Brainwork and Orerwork, (1880): Pryer ( 1880) ; Nervous Diseases and Their Diagnosis and Synhiaq of the Nerrons System (1889). lie was the editor of
Weer Remedies (New York, 1871-73) and of Philadelphia .11cdieal 'limes (1876-83).
WOOD, .1AmEs Iltrsumortr, (1816 82). An American surgeon, born at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Ile graduated at the Castleton Medical College in 1834, served there for a short time as demonstra tor of anatomy, and then removed to New York City. where after three years he became a mem ber of the medical board of Bellevue Hospital, the administration of which he thoroughly re formed. In 1856 he presented the Wood Illusenin to the city. and in 1861 be was one of the prime nOVers in founding Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in which he professor of opera tive surgery and surgical pathology. In 1868 he was made professor emeritus. Among his con tributions to surgical knowledge was the demon stration of the second growth of bone. He per formed several new operations and wrote a num ber of papers on surgery, including Strangu lated Hernia (1845), and Ligature of the External Iliac Artery Followed by Secondary Hemorrhage (1856).