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Authorised form of nameWood; John (1825 - 1891)
Dates1825 - 1891
NationalityBritish
Place of birthBradford, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth12 October 1825
Date of death29 December 1891
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green Cemetery, London
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
Medical department, King's College, London. MB (1848)
Career:
Injured his hip and was lame from an early age; Demonstrator in Anatomy, King's College, London; Assistant Surgeon, King's College Hospital (1856); Surgeon, King's College Hospital; Professor of Surgery; Examiner in Anatomy, University of London; authority on Hernia
Memberships:
MRCS (1849); FRCS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/06/1871
RelationshipsSon of a wool stapler of Bradford
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA6412
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1871/15Wood, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/5/1066Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons31 December 1891
RR/5/243Letter from John Wood, to George Gabriel Stoke, regarding an unknown paper30 December 1864
RR/6/309Committee report, on a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Woodnd [1869]
RR/7/405Referee's report by John Wood, on a paper 'Preliminary note on the anatomy of the umbilical cord' by Lawson Tait26 August 1875
RR/7/407Referee's report by John Wood, on a paper 'Preliminary note on the anatomy of the umbilical cord' by Lawson Tait25 November 1875
RR/5/280Referee's report by William Henry Flower, on a paper 'On some varieties in human myology' by John Wood13 November 1864
RR/6/308Referee's report by George Murray Humphry, on a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Wood31 July 1869
IM/004986Wood, Johnnd
RR/6/307Referee's report by St. George Jackson Mivart, on a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Wood10 July 1869
RR/6/310Letter from William Sharpey, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and homologies in the mammalia' by John Wood6 August 1869
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