Alexander Wood (physician)

Alexander Wood FRSE PRCPE (10 December 1817 – 26 February 1884) was a Scottish physician.

Brown also wrote, "At first this new hypodermic method was employed exclusively for the administration of morphia and preparations of opium, but it is important to note that, from the outset, Dr Wood pointed to a far wider application."

In referring to the preface of a paper on 'New Method of Treating Neuralgia by Subcutaneous Injection', separately published in 1855, Brown quotes Wood as saying, "In all probability, what is true in regard to narcotics would be found to be equally true in regard to other classes of remedies.

[10] In 1863 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being James David Forbes.

It is a false rumour that Rebecca Massey, was the first known intravenous morphine addict and died of an overdose delivered by her husband's invention, however, Richard Davenport-Hines says, 'It is a myth: she outlived him, and survived until 1895.