Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century
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A Practical Treatise On the Diseases Injuries, and Malformations of the Urinary Bladder, the Prostate Gland, and the Urethra
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Studies Anatomy under his Brother, Elected house-surgeon to St. George's H 05pita1, Enters the Army as staff-surgeon.
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Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D., ...: Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. with Sketches of His Contemporaries
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A Practical Treatise On Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages
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Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL. D., Professor of Surgery in The University Of new York
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Autobiography Of Samuel D. Gross, M.D., With Reminiscences Of His Times And Contemporaries V1
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Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D., ...: Emeritus Professor of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. with Sketches of His Contemporaries, Volume 1
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An Experimental and Critical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Wounds of the Intestines: Illustrated by Engravings (Classic Reprint)
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A monograph on wounds of the intestines has long been an acknowledged desideratum in our surgical literature. The work of Mr. Travers, the only production of the kind in the English language, has been out of print upwards of a quarter of a century, and hence the only information accessible to practitioners, especi ally to those of the United States, is such as is to be found in the various periodicals of the day, in the transactions of societies, or in our systematic treatises on surgery. The latter, unfortunately, contain little, if anything, that is worthy of reliance; they enter into no details, and some of them do not even allude to the sub. Jcet; a circumstance so much the more surprising when we reflect upon the importance of these injuries, and the attention which has been bestowed upon them by some of the most respectable members of the profession. In the following pages an attempt has been made to supply this deficiency, by exhibiting a connec ted view of the subject, embracing an account of the results of my own researches, and of those who have preceded me in the same field of inquiry.
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Samuel David Gross was an American academic trauma surgeon and teacher. Also he was a famous author on surgery.
Background
Samuel David Gross was born on his father’s farm near Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, on July 8, 1805, the son of Philip and Johanna Juliana (Brown) Gross.
His great-grandparents had come to Pennsylvania in one of the emigrations from the ruined Palatinate.
Education
During his country life young Gross studied with care and avidity the fauna and the flora of the section of the state in which he grew up. He knew the calls of all the birds, the habits of all the animals, and acquired the capacity for close observation belonging to woodsmen, a faculty which he believed was of the greatest benefit to him throughout his medical life. Having acquired such knowledge as the country schools could give, he began the study of medicine, as was the custom of those days, under a preceptor.
In accordance with this method of instruction the student would learn how to make pills, tinctures, and plasters; would go with the preceptor on his rounds, would help bleed patients and aid in the performance of small operations and in cases of childbirth.
Gross soon made up his mind that his education was not sufficient to permit him to study medicine thoroughly.
He therefore stopped working under his preceptor and attended school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, completing his general education at the well-known academy at Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
He then began the study of medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, recently started by the noted surgeon Dr. George McClellan, father of the general.
He received the degree of D. C. L. from Oxford University and that of LL. D. from Cambridge and from Edinburgh. Probably the degree of which he would have understood the significance most accurately and would have appreciated most highly was the LL. D. of the University of Pennsylvania which came to him on his deathbed.
Career
After his graduation in 1828 Samuel David Gross worked daily with McClellan in his dispensary and opened an office of his own on Library Street below Fifth Street.
During his early period in Philadelphia he published several translations from the French and German, which included: A Manual of General Anatomy (1828) by A. L. J. Bayle and H. L. G. M. Hollard, A Manual of Practical Obstetrics (1828) by Jules Hatin, A Treatise on the Nature, Cause, and Treatment of Contagious Typhus (1829) by V. J. von Hildenbrand, and Elements of Operative Surgery (1829) by Alphonse Tavernier.
In the autumn of 1830 he issued an original work, Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases and Injuries of the Bones and Joints, a book which was well received by the profession but from which he gained not a single cent.
Compelled because of his limited means to abandon practice in Philadelphia, he went to Easton where he practised, studied, and conducted a series of most valuable experiments on dogs relating to gunshot wounds in the abdomen.
His observations were cited years afterwards by C. J. Parkes of Chicago in his famous studies on the same subject. Appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical College of Ohio in 1833, he was made professor of pathological anatomy in the Cincinnati Medical College when it was founded by Daniel Drake two years later.
In 1839 he published his great book. After many refusals, the manuscript was finally accepted by a publisher in Boston. Though the work had a very large sale, Gross received no remuneration for the first edition. After a few years in Cincinnati he was elected in 1840 professor of surgery in the University of Louisville and became the most celebrated surgeon of the South. He was called from there to the University of the City of New York in 1850 to fill the place of Valentine Mott, but not caring for the city he returned to Louisville after about a year.
In 1856 he became professor of surgery in the Jefferson Medical College. His contributions to medical literature were continuous and important. In 1851 he published A Practical Treatise on the Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary Bladder, the Prostate Gland, and the Urethra, which at once became an accepted authority.
The last edition of this book, edited by his son, Samuel W. Gross, appeared in 1876, and was still a standard textbook more than ten years later.
In 1854 Gross issued A Practical Treatise on Foreign Bodies in the Air-Passages, the first attempt to systematize knowledge on the subject and the third pioneer work he had given to the profession. Since the changes in laryngology destined to be wrought by the bronchoscope were not anticipated, this essay was long regarded as definitive.
In 1859 he brought out in two volumes his textbook, A System of Surgery, Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Operative, the outbreak of the Civil War, at the request of the government, he wrote A Manual of Military Surgery (1861) for the use of army surgeons, which, in 1874, was translated into Japanese.
In 1861 he edited The Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century, writing several of the articles himself. He also edited medical journals, contributed numerous articles and reviews to periodicals, read valuable papers to societies, participated in important surgical debates, made addresses, and every now and then brought forth a paper of original research.
Gross was one of the greatest of surgeons and was particularly noted for operating for stone in the bladder, patients coming from long distances to obtain the benefit of his services.
That he was a philosopher as well as a surgeon is revealed in his two-volume Autobiography, which, edited by his sons, appeared in 1887. Active to the last, a short time before his death he cut successfully for stone in the bladder.
He founded the Philadelphia Pathological Society, the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, and the American Surgical Society. He also established the Academy of Surgery prize for original articles, called the Samuel D. Gross Prize, to be contested for every five years. He presided over the International Congress of Surgeons held in Philadelphia in 1876 and was made vice-president of the German Surgical Society.
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Membership
Samuel David Gross was one of the founders and was long the most influential member of the American Medical Association.
Personality
One of the greatest teachers, he was heard by his classes with what may justly be described as reverence. He illustrated important points by striking cases and now and then clinched an idea with an amusing story or an apt historical anecdote, though he never descended into the bawdy. He was a philosopher as well as a surgeon is revealed in his two-volume Autobiography, which, edited by his sons, appeared in 1887.
Connections
Samuel David Gross married, in 1828, Louisa Weissell, a twenty-year-old widow with one child.