Samuel D. Gross
Samuel David Gross (born July 8, 1805 in Easton , Pennsylvania , † May 6, 1884 in Philadelphia ) was an American pathological anatomist and surgeon .
Samuel ("Sam") Gross studied medicine in Easton and Philadelphia, where he received his doctorate in 1828 from Jefferson Medical College . He then worked as a general practitioner. He also translated medical works from French and German into English. In 1830 he moved from Philadelphia to Ohio , where he taught at the Medical College from 1833 to 1840 as an anatomical demonstrator. In 1835 he became professor of pathological anatomy in Cincinnati, where he held the first course in pathological anatomy in the United States of America. From 1840 to 1856 he taught as a professor of surgery at the Louisville Medical Institute and then returned as a surgery professor at Jefferson Medical College , where he remained until his retirement in 1882.
Gross is the author of 14 very influential books and over 1200 articles. The best known is his 2-volume System of Surgery (1859), which has been translated into various languages. His Manual of Military Surgery (1861) was the standard work for field surgeons on both sides in the Civil War .
He was a founder of the American Medical Association , founder and president of the American Surgical Association, and founder and president of the Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College . Since 1854 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .
In the early 1860s, he and Thomas Eakins were students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . Eakins later portrayed Gross in the painting Die Klinik Gross .
Gross' son Dr. Samuel W. Gross also became a surgeon and author.
literature
- Christoph Weißer: Gross, Samuel David. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 512.
Web links
- Gross literature in WorldCat
- EB Hodge, CF Mitchell, CM Smyth: THE SAMUEL D. GROSS PRIZE: FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. In: Annals of Surgery . Volume 110, Number 1, July 1939, p. 160, ISSN 0003-4932 . PMID 17857434 . PMC 1391327 (free full text).
- A manual of military surgery
Individual evidence
- ^ 10 Notable Jefferson Alumni, Samuel D. Gross , March 21, 2007
- ↑ Member History: Samuel D. Gross. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 15, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gross, Samuel D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gross, Samuel David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Easton , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1884 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |