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Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D. emeritus professor of surgery in the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia : with sketches of his comtemporaries / edited by his sons.

  • Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D. emeritus professor of surgery in the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia : with sketches of his comtemporaries / edited by his sons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    OF SAMUEL D. GROSS, M.D. Samuel D. Gross, the son of Philip and Jnliana Gross, was born near Easton, Pennsylvania, July 8th, 1805. Eike Newton, Burns, Cobden, and Whittier, he communed at an early age with Nature and Nature’s God. His child- hood was passed on his father’s farm; and to the salutary open-air life led by him over the hills and valleys of this picturesque portion of Pennsylvania, combined with a sound constitution inherited from his parents, he attrib- uted in great measure that vigorous health, that immunity from disease which enabled him to perform a vast amount of intellectual labor, and to achieve a conspicuous reputa- tion wherever Surgery is cultivated as a science, or wherever the works of its great masters are cherished by its votaries. A strong love of nature remained throughout his life one of the sources of his keenest enjoyment. There were few forest trees, few flowers with the names of which he did not become familiar, few birds with whose notes he was unacquainted. Probably Thoreau did not more enjoy the varied beauties of Nature; nor could the youthful Audubon, with all the enthusiasm of even his Southern temperament, have been much more sensitive to her voices and teachings. The simple plants which he cultivated with love and tenderness on his father’s farm gave place