Medicine: Anti-Leprosy

Leonard Wood, exceedingly feeble and emaciated, thoroughly ill, in Manhattan last week ignored himself as usual and spoke, not as the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, not as the retired major general of the U. S. Army, but as the doctor of medicine that he also is. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1884. An interne in a hospital where internes were forbidden to perform operations, he successfully operated on a child in an emergency and was dismissed for infraction of rules. He joined the Army as an assistant...

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