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 land’ against the ‘schismatical fears and jealousies and the seditious hints and insinuations of Edmund Calamy’ (who had recently preached a sermon on ‘Eli trembling for fear of the Arke’). A long section upon ‘Israels Gratulation for the Arkes Solemn Settlement’ is here followed by an attack upon the overweening conceit of the nonconformists as exhibited by [q. v.] Both this and No. 5 are an expansion upon similar lines of his own ‘Beaten Oyle’ and of Jeremy Taylor's ‘Apologie for the sett forms of a Liturgie’ of 1649.  ‘Go shew thyself to the Priest: safe Advice for a sound Protestant,’ 1679, 4to, recommending ‘conference with a priest’ previous to communion.  ‘Treatises proving both by History and Record that the Bishops are a Fundamental and Essential Part of the English Parliament and that they may be Judges in Capital Cases,’ 1680, fol.  ‘A Letter containing a further Justification of the Church of England,’ 1682.  ‘Billa Vera; or, the Arraignment of Ignoramus put forth out of Charity, for the use of Grand Inquests, and other Juries, the Sworn Assertors of Truth and Justice,’ 1682, 4to.  ‘Suffragium Protestantium. Wherein our governors are justified in their proceedings against Dissenters,’ 1683, 8vo. This was an attempt to refute the ‘Protestant Reconciler’ of [q. v.]



WONOSTROCHT, NICHOLAS (1801–1876), author of 'Felix on the Bat.' [See .]

WOOD, ALEXANDER (1725–1807), surgeon, born at Edinburgh in 1725, was the son of Thomas Wood and grandson of Jasper Wood of Warriston in Midlothian. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and after taking out his diploma settled at Musselburgh, where he practised successfully for a time. He then removed to Edinburgh, became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons on 14 Jan. 1756, and entered into partnership with John Rattray and Charles Congleton, to whose practice he subsequently succeeded. He possessed considerable ability as a surgeon, and was one of those whom Sir Walter Scott's parents consulted concerning his lameness (, Memoirs of Scott, 1845, p. 5). He attained great celebrity in Edinburgh, where his philanthropy and kindness were proverbial. His character made him extremely popular with the townsfolk, and one night during a riot, when the mob, mistaking him for the provost, Sir (1740?–1805) [q. v.], were about to throw him over the North Bridge, he saved himself by exclaiming ‘I'm lang Sandy Wood; tak' me to a lamp and ye'll see.’ Byron held him in high esteem, and in a fragment of a fifth canto of ‘Childe Harold,’ which appeared in ‘Blackwood's Magazine’ in May 1818, he wrote:

and spoke of him very warmly in a note to the stanza. Wood died in Edinburgh on 12 May 1807. An epitaph was composed for him by Sir [q. v.]; and (1763–1820) [q. v.], who had been his pupil, dedicated to him the first volume of his ‘Anatomy.’ Two portraits of him were executed by (1742–1826) [q. v.], and a portrait by George Watson is in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. He married Veronica Chalmers. One of his sons, Sir Alexander Wood, was chief secretary at Malta, and one of his grandsons, Alexander Wood, became a lord of session in 1842 with the title Lord Wood.



WOOD, ALEXANDER (1817–1884), physician, second son of Dr. James Wood and Mary Wood, his cousin, was born at Cupar, Fife, on 10 Dec. 1817. He was educated at a private school in Edinburgh kept by Mr. Hindmarsh. In 1826 he became a pupil at the Edinburgh Academy, where he remained until July 1832, when he entered the university of Edinburgh. Here he took the usual course in the faculty of arts, with the exception of the rhetoric class. He combined medicine with the humanities,