Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E003638 - Wood, Samuel (1812 - 1879)
Title:
Wood, Samuel (1812 - 1879)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003638
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-02-27
2013-02-28
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Wood, Samuel (1812 - 1879), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Wood, Samuel
Date of Birth:
1812
Date of Death:
19 June 1879
Place of Death:
Shrewsbury
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 14th 1837
FRCS January 10th 1861
LSA 1835
JP
Details:
Studied at University College Hospital, acted as House Surgeon to the Shrewsbury Infirmary from 1837-1848, and was then appointed Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the Shropshire and Montgomery Counties Lunatic Asylum, practising at St Mary's Court, Shrewsbury.
He was much interested in archaeology; was a Fellow and the local Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, a member of the Numismatic Society of London and of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, a Fellow of the Ethnological Society, and an authority on the antiquities of his native district.
He died at St Mary's Court, Shrewsbury, on June 19th, 1879.
Publications:
Wood published papers in 1863 "On a Case of Traumatic Tetanus" for which he had divided the implicated nerve; also "An Operation for the Cure of Femoral Hernia" in 1871.
*Address to the Members of the Shropshire Scientific Branch of the British Medical Association*, 8vo, Shrewsbury, 1868.
Sources:
*Proc Roy Med-Chir Soc*, 1875-80, viii, 478
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003600-E003699
Media Type:
Unknown
