Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-06-28
BY A. fl ROBERTS
A ROYAL APPOINTMENT.

DR.. n. L. Wood of Chicago, whose professional
visits to Audubon have been continuing during
the past year is n recipient Of a distinguished
honor, as the following taken from the Chicago
Mail of June 10Th, will show:
DR.. N. L. Wood, president of the Chicago
Medical and Surgical institute, has been COM
manded by the emperor of Germany to visit the
royal military hospitals of the empire for the
purpose of instructing the German hospital sur
geOns In the cure of certain diseases of men,
particularly prevalent among soldiers and farm
ers, % per cent of these occupations being af-
ficted with these particular diseases, which
have heretofore baflied the skill of physicians,
who were only able to treat them by an extreme
ly dangerous and painful operation. BY DIR.
Woods new method of treatment q safe cure is
effected in every case, without pain or danger to
the patient. His method has been used by him
for several years, and he has tested it in over
1000 eases without a single failure.
DR.. Wood, accompanied by his wife, leaves for
New York tonight and sails on the Cunarder
Etruria next Saturday, June 49, and after a brief
visit with his distinguished relative, Sir Henry
Wood of London, he will proceed directly to
Germany. The doctor will be accorded the
highest military honors while abroad, being met
at the German frontier by a detachment of the
Imperial guard, and escorted in state to Berlin.
This appointment comes to DR.. Wood, an
American, as most distinguished honor, it be-
ing the first instance of an American physician
being commissioned TO visit the German empire
professionally. The only precedent for mem
Der Of the medical profession not being a Ger
man being commanded to pay professional
visit to the imperial court was the instance of
Sir MOrell McKenzie's visit to the late Emperor
Frederick at the command of Queen Victoria.
N. L. Wood, A. NJ, Nj. D., was born in New
York in 1852, of English ancestry, the family be-
ing traced back to the "De Wodes" OF the
eleventh century.
At the age of 1G he began the study of medi-
cine, and received the degree of master of arts
from Columbia college, New York, in 1874, and
the degree of NJ. d., from the medical depart
ment of the same institution the following year.
He has been in active practice ever since.
He located in Chicago in 1877, and in the fol
lowing year he founded the Chicago Medical
and Surgical institute, at the corner of Wabash
avenue and Van Buren, street, and was elected
as its first president, and has been reelected to
that office each succeeding year.
Tho Chicago Medical and Surgical institute
takes its place at the head of all institutions OF
| the kind in the west. This supremacy has been
gained by the careful and able management and
superior skill of its president
Realizing the great advance continually being
made in medicine and surgery, DR.. Wood has
connected with his staff of physicians and sur
| geons the most skilful and able specialists.
Rush Medical college conferred upon DR.
Wood the honorary degree of NJ. D., in 1890
DR.. Wood is a man Of wide learning and deeI
| research, and in the pursuit of his profession
| has kept abreast of the most advanced ideas il
| medical and scientific investigation, and, bein,
man of large means, he has been liberal ii
using them to advance his favOrite science.