Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Alexander Wood
Standard Name: Wood, Alexander
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1853: Scottish physician Alexander Wood modified...
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1853
Scottish physician Alexander Wood
modified the point of the medical syringe needle and created the hypodermic syringe.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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28 August 1858: Dr Alexander Wood published a paper in the...
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28 August 1858
Dr Alexander Wood
published a paper in the British Medical Journal on a new medical therapy involving morphine injections through a hypodermic syringe.
Parssinen, Terry M. Secret Passions, Secret Remedies: Narcotic Drugs in British Society 1820-1930. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983.
