biography
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Gross, Samuel David
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1805–84)
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| biography:
| Surgeon and writer, born near Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. After taking his MD from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, he set up practice in the city, and also translated and wrote several important works on anatomy and surgery. He went on to teach at Cincinnati Medical College and the University of Louisville before returning to Jefferson Medical College as professor of surgery (1856–82). He had an international reputation as both a teacher and practitioner of surgery, and he continued to be a prolific writer, producing several classic texts including Elements of Pathological Anatomy (1839) and System of Surgery, Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Operative (1859). His specialties included operations for bladder stone and intestinal wounds and he also invented new techniques and instruments. One of the founders and most influential members of the American Medical Association (1847), Thomas Eakins portrayed him in a famous painting, ‘The Clinic of Dr Gross’ (1875). |
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