# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-bacon-wood
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:55:39.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-bacon-wood"
name: "George Bacon Wood"
slug: "george-bacon-wood"
description: "George Bacon Wood was an American physician, chemist, professor, and writer. He was chair of chemistry and materia medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He served as chair of materia medica, as well as chair and professor emeritus of theory and practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He published frequently and is best known for the Dispensatory of the United States with Dr. Franklin Bache, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, and A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology of Materia Medica."
tagline: "American physician and university professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_B._Wood.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1797-03-13"
deathDate: "1879-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.63
  momentum:             15.14492753623188
  historical:           3.735853333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جورج بيكون وود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جورج بيكون وود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bacon_Wood"
    title: "George Bacon Wood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bacon_Wood"
    title: "George Bacon Wood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15698809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump