DR. WOOD

Duration: 60 min

Year Published: 1973

Creator: National Medical Audiovisual Center (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

Color: B&W

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Highlights of his early years at Harvard College at John Hopkins University, where he studied Medicine - and at Washington University in St Louis, where he was head of the Dept of Medicine. Describes his primary interest in the mechanisms of disease - his many years of clinical research in the study of pneumococcal pneumonia before and after antibiotics were developed - and the pathogenesis of fever. From the GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE series.