Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1679

SAMUEL DAVID GROSS (1805-1884) Elements of pathological anatomy. Marsh, Capen, Lyon, & Webb, and James B. Dow 1839 Vol. I: 518 pp., 4 col. fold. plates, illus.; Vol. II: 510 pp., col. fold. plate, illus. 21.5 cm.

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Gross became demonstrator of anatomy at Cincinnati Medical College in 1833. Two years later he accepted the chair of pathological anatomy at the newly organized Medical Department of the Cincinnati College where he presented one of the earliest courses of lectures on pathological anatomy given in the United States. It was during this period of his career that he wrote the present work. In his "Memoir of Samuel D. Gross, M.D.," Isaac M. Hays (1796-1879) noted that this "was the first systematic work upon the subject ever published in the United States, or, indeed, in the English language" (American journal of the medical sciences. New Series. Vol. 88 (July 1884), p. 296).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2292; Osler 2842 (2nd ed., 1845); Wellcome III, p. 170