Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)

Neurosurgical contributions of Samuel D. Gross.

One of the most famous American Surgeons of the early 1800s was Samuel David Gross (1805-1884). His mastery of surgery was immortalized in Thomas Eakins' 1875 painting of Gross titled The Gross Clinic. Gross was a prolific surgeon and one of his textbooks, a System of Surgery, went through 6 editions. Not known to many is the fact that this book also covered neurosurgical diseases and technique...

Samuel David Gross.

was considered the greatest American surgeon of his time. Among his many writings was a treatise on the genito-urinary organs (1851) containing the first account of the distribution of urinary calculi. He was immortalized in the monumental (8 ft by 6 ft, 6 in) painting by Thomas Eakins known as The Gross Clinic which now hangs in the Jefferson Medical College. Fielding Garrison, in his authorit...

Samuel D. Gross of Philadelphia: pathologist, surgeon, and medical historian.

Samuel David Gross (1805–1884) (Fig. 1), a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Jeff erson Medical College in Philadelphia, wrote his fi rst book [1] in 1828, just two years after he received his M.D. degree. Th e book, which was the fi rst American treatise on orthopedic pathology and surgery, was an instant success, but Gross’s attempt to establish a surgical practice was a failu...

The Gross clinic, the Agnew clinic, and the Listerian revolution.

Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (1805-1884): an innovator, even in death.