"Why General Wood has never claimed any credit, whatsoever, for stamping out yellow fever is something I cannot understand."

This remark was made by Bishop Broderick, of New York City, who was in Cuba thruout General Wood's administration as Governor-General, and who probably knows as much about Wood's Cuban career as any person except the General himself. Bishop Broderick is a staunch Wood champion, altho he says, "I have fought against General Wood and with him many a time." Nevertheless, if the Bishop had his way, General Wood would be President of the United States for the next two terms.

This discussion of Leonard Wood as a doctor of medicine, surgeon and sanitarian, must necessarily be non-technical as the writer is a layman, unacquainted except as a layman with his professional skill and rank. That he stood high as a general practitioner during thirteen years of service as assistant surgeon and surgeon in the army is attested by his record. The son of a distinguished physician, trained in one of the very best medical colleges of the country, Harvard, and at the Boston City Hospital, where he served as interne, Leonard

Wood's preparation for his profession was thoro and complete. He took his examination for surgeonship in the army early in 1885 and stood second among fifty-nine applicants. Army officers swore by Dr. Wood, his ability as a diagnostician, his conscientiousness, his skill as surgeon and his resourcefulness.

Leonard Wood's father, Dr. Charles Jewett Wood, has been described by Ray Stannard Baker, who has written many articles about General Wood's early career, as "a man of brilliant attainments, sturdy individuality, great physical energy and strangely taciturn, a man who attracted and won the confidence of everyone he met. For years he drove day and night over the hills between Buzzard's Bay and Cape Cod, following the rigorous, ill-paid practice of a country doctor, and many are the little homes of the fisher folk where he called and forgot to leave his bill."

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Leonard Wood grew up in the village of Pocasset, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. attended the district school of the village, then attended Pierce Academy, Middleboro, Mass. On the advice of his father he entered the Harvard Medical College in 1880, graduating four years later. He won a small scholarship and otherwise worked his own way thru college, tutoring and picking up any sort of job that he could to pay his expenses. He stood third in his class at the examination for admission as interne in the Boston City Hospital.

Mr. Baker, continuing his narrative of Leonard Wood's early life, writes:

"Dr. E. H. Bradford, who was superintendent of the Boston City Hospital while Wood was there as an interne, says of him: 'He was one of the most satisfactory assistants I have had-if not the most satisfactory. He was indefatigable in his work.

and when he was told to do a thing he could be depended upon absolutely to do it, and do it immediately, and he knew how to hold his tongue.'

At the age of 24, Dr. Wood hung out his shingle in Staniford Street, Boston. The people of the neighborhood were extremely poor. Wood had plenty of work, but it was practically all charity work. He had to resume tutoring and perform dispensary work to pay his expenses. As a physician and the son of a physician, Leonard Wood was running true to form in the pursuit of his profession of humane service. Backed by the great prestige of a Harvard Medical College diploma, he could have gone forth, settled in one of the growing cities of the West and built up a lucrative practice. Instead, he gave of his time and skill to the poor of Boston. He was so poor himself that he had hardly enough to eat during these early days as practitioner.

"I remember I used to live on twenty-five cents a day for a while in Boston," he said. recently to a friend. "I'd get coffee and rolls for breakfast for five cents, a stew and a glass of milk for luncheon at the cost of ten cents, and a sandwich and tea for supper for ten cents. That was in the days when the term, high cost of living, was unknown."

It was Leonard Wood's impelling desire for the out-of-doors and adventure that led him to enter the army. He reported for duty on July 4, 1885, at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and was assigned to the command. of Captain Henry W. Lawton, famous Indian fighter, who later won a great reputation as Major-General in the Spanish-American War and was killed in the Philippines. For fourteen months Wood acted as assistant surgeon and line officer in the chase after Geronimo and his band of Apache

Indians. He led detachments of veteran troopers in chasing the Indians and at the same time attended to his duties as medical officer. In March, 1898, shortly before the declaration of war against Spain, he was voted by Congress the Congressional Medal of Honor "for distinguished conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians in 1886 while serving as medical and line officer of Captain Lawton's expedition."

Old army officers tell many stories of Wood's skill as surgeon in the days when he served at different posts in the West and Southwest.

At Fort Huachuca he had attracted the attention of General Nelson A. Miles, and when the General met with a painful accident some time after the capture of Geronimo, and was told by the best surgeons of Los Angeles that he would have to submit to the amputation of his left leg, he sent for Wood. The General's horse had fallen with him, crushing his leg.

"Wood, the doctors tell me that they will have to cut off this leg," said General Miles. "But they are not going to do it. I am going to leave it to you. You've got to save it."

And Wood did. After a thoro examination of the limb he gave an opinion dissenting from that of the surgeons who had advised amputation. Within a few weeks General Miles was walking around on both legs, his injury healed.

When Wood was stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga., in the early nineties, he took a great liking to a young lieutenant of infantry, who was a splendid football player. Wood then held the rank of a captain, medical side, and was coach and captain of the post football team. He had heard that the lieutenant's wife was an invalid, and one day he asked him to describe her illness. I