Hints for a biographical sketch of the late Alexander Wood, Esq., surgeon in Edinburgh.

Date:
[1832?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints for a biographical sketch of the late Alexander Wood, Esq., surgeon in Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of his profession till within a short period of his death, which happened on the 12th of Mav 1807, at the advanced age of eighty-two. In Blackwood’s Magazine for May 1818, there is a fragment of a fifth canto of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the subject of which is Edinburgh. From this it will be seen that the many exced^t qualities of Mr. Wood had made a deep impression on the mind of Lord Byron. The author, after noticing many of the most striking features of the ancient city, alludes, amongst other things, to different members of the Medical Profession, and thus concludes— “ Ob, for one hour of him who knew no feud, Th’ octogenarian chief—the kind old Sandy Wood !” In a note upon this stanza it is mentioned, “ The reader will recollect the exclamation of the Highlander,—‘ Oh, for one hour of Dun- dee !’ Sandy Wood (one of the delightful re- miniscences of Old Edinburgh) was at least eighty years of age, when, in high repute as a medical man, he could yet divert himself, in his