WOOD, Isaac, physician, born in Clinton, Dutchess County, New York, 21 August, 1793; died in Norwalk, Connecticut, 25 March, 1868. In 1803 his father removed to New York city, establishing there a book-store and publishing-house. Isaac studied medicine with Dr. Valentine Seaman, spent the years 1814-'16 in the New York hospital, and in 1816 received his diploma from the medieval department of Queen's (now Rutgers) college, New Jersey He was one of the physicians of the New York dispensary till 1825, and resident physician of Bellevue hospital from 1826 till 1833, when he resigned. In 1832-'3, during the prevalence of cholera in New York, he kept his post, and was attacked by the disease, from whose effects he did not fully recover for five years. Dr. Wood was an active member of the Society for the reformation of juvenile delinquents, of which his father and elder brother were the principal founders. He was for twenty-five years one of the most active managers of the New York institution for the blind, one of the founders and subsequently president of the Society for the relief of the widows and orphans of physicians, and a founder and twice president of the New York academy of medicine. For many years he was president of the Bellevue hospital medical board, and he was connected with other institutions and societies, including the Sanitary commission during the civil war. He had a high reputation as an ophthalmic surgeon.