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Samuel David Gross (July 8, 1805 – May 6, 1884) was an American academic trauma surgeon. Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross "The Nestor of American Surgery." He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins ' The Gross Clinic (1875), a prominent American painting of the nineteenth century.
Samuel David Gross (born July 8, 1805, Easton, Pa., U.S.—died May 6, 1884, Philadelphia) was an American surgeon, teacher of medicine, and author of an influential textbook on surgery and a widely read treatise on pathological anatomy. Born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Gross at first
Choosing the city’s world-famous surgeon and teacher Dr. Samuel Gross as his subject, Eakins sets the scene in Jefferson Medical College’s surgical amphitheater. Dr. Gross is shown leading a clinic of five doctors operating on the left thigh of a patient.
A revered teacher, an influential author, and a skilled surgeon, Samuel David Gross (1805-1884) initiated many important advancements in medicine, particularly surgery. He formulated and taught the first hands-on, systematic approach to surgery in the United States.
Samuel David Gross (1805–1884) (Fig. 1 ⇓), a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, wrote his first book in 1828, just two years after he received his M.D. degree. The book, which was the first American treatise on orthopedic pathology and surgery, was an instant success, but Gross’s ...
Samuel D. Gross was not afraid to identify and lead change in many aspects of medical and surgical care. It is his dealings with the treatment of the dead that are particularly humanizing. Whether it was a renunciation of the status quo of the procurement. F. IG. 1. LeMoyne Crematory in Washington County, Pennsyl-
The Gross Clinic or The Clinic of Dr. Gross is an 1875 painting by American artist Thomas Eakins. It is oil on canvas and measures 8 feet (240 cm) by 6.5 feet (200 cm). The painting depicts Dr. Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, lecturing a group of Jefferson Medical College students.
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