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Alexander Wood
Alexander Wood FRSE PRCPE (10 December 1817 – 26 February 1884), was a Scottish physician. He invented the first true hypodermic syringe.
The son of Dr James Wood and his wife Mary, Alexander was born on 10 December 1817 in Cupar, Fife, and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University (MD 1839).[1]
In 1853 invented the first hypodermic needle that used a true syringe and hollow needle.[2] The much-repeated story that Wood's wife, Rebecca Massy, was the first known intravenous morphine addict and died an overdose delivered by her husband's invention[clarification needed].[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 9780902198845. http://www.rse.org.uk/fellowship/fells_indexp2.pdf. Retrieved 7 June, 2011.
- ^ Yaksh, Tony L. (1999). Spinal drug delivery. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 15. ISBN 0444829016.
- ^ Richard Davenport-Hines (2003). The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. W.W. Norton. p. 100. ISBN 978-0393325454.
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