Alexander Wood (physician)

Alexander Wood ( born December 10, 1817 in Cupar, Fife, † February 26, 1884 ) was a British physician.

Life

Wood attended the Edinburgh Academy and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. 1853 Alexander Wood used as first a hypodermic needle for intravenous administration of drugs. Wood was in 1842 married to Rebecca Massey and from 1863 a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.