at 12 Strathearn Place in the Grange in southern Edinburgh. Wood was buried with his wife, Rebecca Massey, in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. The grave lies on an east-facing section of the obscured southern terrace. The gravestone corroborates a later date for his wife's death, on 6 February 1895. Family In 1842 he married Rebecca Massey. It is a false rumour that Rebecca Massey, was the first known intravenous morphine addict and died of an overdose delivered by her husband's invention, however, Richard Davenport-Hines says, 'It is a myth: she outlived him, and survived until 1895.' Recognition The Very Rev Thomas Brown wrote a biography of Wood, entitled A Sketch of the Life and Work of Alexander wood MD FRCP in 1886. References 1817 births 1884 deaths 19th-century Scottish people People from Cupar Medical doctors from Edinburgh People educated at Edinburgh Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School Academics of the University of Edinburgh Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish inventors