Background
Wood, Horatio Charles was born on February 26, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Horatio C. and Eliza H. (Longacre) Wood.
Wood, Horatio Charles was born on February 26, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Horatio C. and Eliza H. (Longacre) Wood.
Graduate William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, 1890. Student literature department University of Pennsylvania 2 years. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1896.
Research work, University of Berne, 1897-1898, University of Turin, 1898.
Associate professor pharmacology, 1907-1910. Professor pharmacology and therapeutics, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, 1910-1916. Professor same, University of Pennsylvania, 1916-1942.
Professor pharmacology, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 1921-1950.
Assistant visiting physician to Philadelphia General Hospital, 1904-1908. Member Committee on Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia, 1910-1940.
Vice-president United States Pharmacopoeia Convention, 1941.
Fellow Associate of Arts Associate of Science; member American Society Pharmacology, American Pharmaceutical Association.
Married Alice L. Lovell, December 19, 1899. Children: Horatio C. III. Florence L. Demonstrator in pharmacodynamics, University of Pennsylvania.