WOODYATT, W. H. – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

OODYATT, W. H., M. D., Professor of Eye and Ear Surgery at Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, Ills.,
was born at Brantford, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, on the 12th of September, 1846. After receiving his school education in his native town, he
entered the office of the Montreal Telegraph Company. He improved his opportunities so well that he speedily became a skilful operator, and in 1865,
when only about nineteen years of age, was made the manager of the Company’s office in Kingston, Ontario, one of the five cities in Canada. While in that position he had considerable leisure
time, which was devoted to the study of medicine. In the summer of 1867, he returned to Brantford and entered the office of Dr. H. C. Allen, who was
then Professor of Anatomy at Cleveland College. He took the first course of lectures at Cleveland College that winter, and at the close remained in
Cleveland with Dr. H. F. Biggar, then Adjunct to the Professor of Surgery, but who was made Professor of Anatomy before the next session.

     He graduated in the spring of 1869, and went to New York to make a special study of the diseases of the
eye and ear ; he spent his time there between Knapp’s Hospital, Manhattan and New York Eye and Ear Infirmaries, and the Ophthalmic Hospital. He
went to Chicago and opened an office there on the 1st of January, 1871. He was appointed Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye and Ear at the Hahnemann
College of Chicago, and commenced lecturing in the spring term of 1871. Since that time he has filled that chair, and, at the close of the winter term
of 1872-’73, was made Professor of Eye and Ear Surgery. He has charge of the Eye and Ear Department of the Hahnemann Hospital, and is the Eye and Ear
Surgeon to the Foundlings’ Home. He is a regular contributor to the

United States Medical and
Surgical Journal of Chicago, and ophthalmic editor of the Medical Investigator of Chicago.

Source : Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons By
Egbert Cleave