Gross, Samuel David

Gross, Samuel David
born July 8, 1805, Easton, Pa., U.S.
died May 6, 1884, Philadelphia

U.S. surgeon, teacher of medicine, and author.

He was apprenticed to a local country doctor before receiving formal medical training. His most celebrated work, Elements of Pathological Anatomy (1839), was a pioneering effort that organized knowledge on the subject in English, and his System of Surgery (2 vol., 1859) had a profound effect on surgical thought worldwide. His Manual of Military Surgery (1861) was written at the government's request. Gross also invented many surgical tools. He was memorably portrayed in Thomas Eakins's masterpiece, The Gross Clinic.

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▪ American surgeon
born July 8, 1805, Easton, Pa., U.S.
died May 6, 1884, Philadelphia

      American surgeon, teacher of medicine, and author of an influential textbook on surgery and a widely read treatise on pathological anatomy.

      Born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Gross at first was apprenticed to a local country doctor. He continued his education at Wilkes-Barre Academy in Pennsylvania and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1828. After setting up a practice in Philadelphia, Gross began translating medical treatises by foreign authors into English.

      In 1830 Gross published a treatise on diseases of the bones and joints. Nine years later, he wrote his most celebrated work, Elements of Pathological Anatomy (1839), a pioneering effort that organized and systematized knowledge on the subject in English. The book went through several editions. Gross is also remembered for his incisive treatises on diseases of the urinary bladder (1851) and the intestines (1843) and on foreign bodies in air passages (1854). His two-volume A System of Surgery; Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Operative (1859), translated and read around the world, had a profound effect on surgical thought. His Manual of Military Surgery (1861) was written at the request of the U.S. government. He also invented many surgical tools.

      Gross was appointed professor of surgery at the University of Louisville in 1840 and professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College in 1856, where he taught until 1882. As a teacher he was considered remarkable for his ability to enliven the standard medical lecture using anecdote and humour. He was memorably portrayed in the American painter Thomas Eakins' masterpiece, “The Gross Clinic” (1875).

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