Alexander Wood ( born Alexander Wood , December 10, 1817 - February 26, 1884) is a Scottish doctor, one of the inventors of the hypodermic syringe.
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Biography
Alexander Wood was born in Scotland in the village of Cupar, Fife , his parents were Dr. James Wood and Mary Wood, who was James Cousin [1] . He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University [2] .
In 1853, Wood, regardless of the French surgeon S.-G. Pravasa invented a hypodermic syringe, the design of which included a syringe and a hollow needle [3] . Shurin and Wood biographer noted that Wood laid the bee sting device at the core of the syringe design. Brown also wrote: “At first glance, this new method of subcutaneous injection was used exclusively for the administration of morphine and opium , but it is important to note that from the very beginning, Dr. Wood indicated a much wider use of it.” Brown cites Wood's work of 1855, in which the latter notes: “In all likelihood, what will be established for drugs is equally true for other classes of drugs” [1] .
Alexander Wood was elected president of the in 1858 [4] .
It was rumored that Wood's wife, Rebecca Messi, was the first morphine addict to inject intravenously using her husband's invention and died of an overdose. This was denied by Richard Davenport-Hines, who noted in his publication: “this is a myth: she survived it [Alexander], and lived until 1894” [5] .
Alexander Wood is buried with his wife at in Edinburgh . On the tombstone, the date of the death of his wife is indicated as February 6, 1895.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Brown, Thomas. Alexander Wood, MD, FRCPE, & c. & C. : A sketch of his life and work . - Macniven & Wallace, 1886 .-- P. 203.
- ↑ Waterston, Charles D. Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index / Charles D Waterston, A Macmillan Shearer. - Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh , July 2006. - Vol. II. - ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5 . Archived October 4, 2006 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Yaksh, Tony L. Spinal drug delivery. - Elsevier Health Sciences, 1999. - P. 15. - ISBN 0-444-82901-6 .
- ↑ Some (mostly Scottish) local anaesthetic heroes . Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Date of treatment November 5, 2015.
- ↑ Richard Davenport-Hines. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. - WW Norton, 2003. - P. 68. - ISBN 978-0-393-32545-4 .