Samuel D. Gross

Samuel David Gross ( born July 8, 1805 in Easton, Pennsylvania, † May 6, 1884 in Philadelphia ) was a famous American surgeon.

Dr. Gross graduated in 1828 at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He translated medical works from French and German into English. In 1830 he moved from Philadelphia to Ohio, where he taught from 1833 to 1840 at the Medical College. Until 1856 he taught at the Louisville Medical Institute and then returned to the Jefferson Medical College, where he remained until his retirement in 1882.

Gross is the author of 14 highly influential books and over 1200 articles. Best known is his two -volume System of Surgery (1859 ), which was translated into several languages. His Manual of Military Surgery ( 1861) was the standard work of field surgeons of both sides in the Civil War.

He was a founder of the American Medical Association, founder and president of the American Surgical Association, and founder and president of the Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College.

In the early 1860s, he and Thomas Eakins students at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Later Eakins Gross portrayed in the painting The Gross Clinic.