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Gross, Samuel David

educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born July 8, 1805, near Easton, Pa. He was a distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia who was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college in 1856-82, and a member of many medical associations in America and Europe. He is the author of A System of Surgery; Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century; Manual of Military Surgery; History of American Medical Literature; John Hunter and His Pupils; Pathological Anatomy; Wounds of the Intestines; and Diseases of the Urinary Organs. He also edited American Medical Biography. He died May 6, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.