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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

A treatise on therapeutics.

Publication Details

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1874 CE.

Wood was a professor of botany (1866-76), therapeutics (1875-1907) and nervous diseases (1875-1901) in the University of Pennsylvania. In his book the effects of various drugs in small doses was first discussed; it also contains a standard classification of drugs.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#1972
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/3751
External URLa-treatise-on-therapeutics

Geographic Context

Publication place: Philadelphia