Samuel David Gross
American surgeon (1805-1884) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 78
Samuel David Gross 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.
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A bronze statue of him was cast by Alexander Stirling Calder and erected on the National Mall, but moved in 1970 to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Country
United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1805 to 1884 · aged 78
