Gross

Gross, SAMUEL DAVID, American surgeon, was born near Easton, Pennsylvania, 8th July 1805, graduated at Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, in 1828, and in 1835 became professor of Pathological Anatomy at Cincinnati. He was afterwards professor of Surgery in the universities of Louisville and New York, and from 1856 to 1882 in Jefferson College. He died in Philadelphia, 6th May 1884. His published works are numerous and valuable, and include a System of Surgery (2 vols. 1859; 6th ed. 1882). Dr Gross was a member of many medical and surgical societies, both in America and in Europe, was president of the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876, and received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford in 1872, and of LL.D. from Edinburgh in 1884.