# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horatio-curtis-wood-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:09:17.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horatio-curtis-wood-jr"
name: "Horatio Curtis Wood Jr."
slug: "horatio-curtis-wood-jr"
description: "Horatio Curtis Wood Jr. was an American physician and biologist. Born into a wealthy Pennsylvania family, he attended the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and after serving as a surgeon in the American Civil War, continued to teach at the university. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was known for his 1874 text Treatise on Therapeutics, which became a widely used medical textbook, and also for his botanical and zoological work: writing on freshwater algae, fossil plants, arachnids, and myriapods."
tagline: "American physician and naturalist (1841–1920)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horatio_C_Wood_1889.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: "1841-01-13"
deathDate: "1920-01-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.04
  momentum:             9.999999999999998
  historical:           5.268322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Horatio C. Wood Jr."
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  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "هوراشيو سي وود جونيور"
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    title: "هوراشيو سى وود جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_C._Wood"
    title: "Horatio C. Wood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Curtis_Wood"
    title: "Horatio Curtis Wood"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_C_Wood"
    title: "Horatio C Wood"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump