Gross, Samuel

DAVID, surgeon and author, was born near Easton, Pa., July 8, 1805; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia (1828); became profe or of Pathological Anatomy at Cincinnati Medical College (1835-39); profe or of Surgery at the University of Louisville (1839-50) and at the University of New York (1850-51). He attained a world-wide reputation as a surgeon of almost unexampled skill and as a writer on surgical subjects; was a member of numerous medical and surgical societies of the U. S. and Europe; presided over the International Medical Congre at Philadelphia (1876); received the honorary degrees of D.C.L. from Oxford (1872) and LL.D. from Edinburgh (1884). His greatest work was System of Surgery, 2 vols., which has pa ed through many editions. Other works were: Manual of Military Surgery; Elements of Pathological Anatomy, . Died May 6, 1884.