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Thomas Fanning Wood

“Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.”
State historical marker: D-81: Thomas F. Wood 1841-1892

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NCpedia: Thomas Fanning Wood NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
Historical marker D-81: Thomas F. Wood 1841-1892 NC Highway Historical Marker Organizer & Sec.-Treas. of State Board of Health, 1877-1892. Founded N.C. Medical Journal in 1878. Home was 1 block west.

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Selection of correspondence to Dr. Thomas Wood, Wilmington physician and botanist, cofounder of the North Carolina Medical Journal, and the first secretary of the N.C. Board of Health.

Senseny, B. Rush. · 1876

Includes discussion between Thomas Wood and B. Rush Senseny about collaborating on a book about vaccines; Dr. Benjamin Becker recounting his experience with vaccines since 1817; responses to the proposed organizing of c…

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