Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1680

SAMUEL DAVID GROSS (1805-1884) A system of surgery; pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic and operative. Blanchard and Lea 1859 Vol. I: xxiv [2] [35]-1162 [2] 32 pp., 292 illus.; Vol. II: xxiv [2] [19]-1198 pp., 644 illus. 23.1 cm.

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Gross taught at Louisville from 1840 until 1856 when he returned to the Jefferson Medical College. He wanted very much to write the present work and greatly restricted his private practice, limiting himself to teaching and surgical operations. As a result he was able to devote long hours to his writing and completed his task three years later. He commented in the Preface that "The object of this work is to furnish a systematic and comprehensive treatise on the science and practice of surgery, considered in the broadest sense; one that shall serve the practitioner as a faithful and available guide in his daily routine of duty" (p. [v]). The work was received with great acclaim both in the United States and in Europe and by the time it had reached the sixth edition in 1882, it had been so thoroughly revised that it was essentially an entirely new book.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5607; Osler 2842 (1882 ed.)