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.