Samuel Lloyd / [Chas. Murray Gratz].

  • Gratz, Chas. Murray (Charles Murray), 1898-
Date:
1928
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Credit: Samuel Lloyd / [Chas. Murray Gratz]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprint from SURGERY, GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS December, 1928, pages 870-871 MOOD/e CO^0Tl0N / C SAMUEL LLOYD By CHARLES MURRAY GRATZ, M.D., New York IN the death of Dr. Samuel Lloyd the country lost one of its foremost surgeons and a great teacher of surgery. He held an honored place in the older group of true general surgeons. Dr. Lloyd was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on August 4, i860, the son of Gardner Potts and Emma (Disbrow) Lloyd, and died on December 19, 1926. In 1888, he married Adele Ferrier Peck, who died in June, 1925. His university work began at Princeton University, as a member of the class of 1882. He was prominent in various student activities, a noted athlete, and head of the athletic association. During his course at Princeton he first began experimental work on animals in relation to thoracic surgery, in which work he afterward became a pioneer. From Princeton he went to the University of Ver¬ mont as associate professor of chemistry, and there studied medicine, graduating from the University of Vermont and later from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. Any attempt to trace his career from that time until he took the Post- Graduate Hospital Unit overseas at the outbreak of the World War, would lead to unnecessary detail. Suffice it to say that with Dr. St. John Roosa he was one of the founders of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital and was associated with the progress of that institution until his death. Post-graduate instruction and surgery in that hospital were profoundly influenced by him, and the list of his students, house staff, and associates would include many of the most prominent surgeons of today, scattered in all parts of the globe. It is related of him that one of his classes did not find sufficient thrill in doing their operative work on the cadaver, so in order to make it more realistic Dr. Lloyd put a solution of red ink in a large container overhead and connected this with the veins of the cadaver, thus providing blood-pressure. By means of a clock, the supply was turned on and off at regular intervals, causing pulsation in the blood vessels. With this new apparatus the class proceeded with renewed enthusiasm. During the early part of this period, Dr. Lloyd was associated with Dr. L. S. Pilcher in the conduct of the Annals of Surgery, and from time to time contributed reviews, especially in spinal and thoracic surgery: at the same time he was making valuable contributions to all departments of surgery through his practice r