Gross, Samuel David, 1805-1884

Scope and Contents Photocopies of notes and letters pasted into the front pages of Lawrence Heister's General System of Surgery (8th ed., London, 1768). The notes document the book's successive ownership by John Groome, George McClellan, J. W. Mintzer, Samuel D. Gross, E. J. Groom, Samuel W. Gross, A. Haller Gross and John Chalmers Da Costa. The collection includes a letter handwritten by S. D. Gross thanking Dr. Mintzer for the book. The book is in Special Collections, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson...

Scope and Contents Invitation to J. Foster Flagg, D.D.S. from the Committee of Arrangements to attend a reception for Drs. Gross and Pancoast in the Foyer of the Academy of Music on 24 Oct. 1868, probably in conjunction with the Jefferson Medical College Opening Address.

Scope and Contents Manuscript of an article on the career and achievements of Samuel D. Gross, M.D., submitted for publication in the Mexican journal Cirujano General as part of the series "Historia de la Cirurgia : Maestros de la Cirurgia Moderna."

Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials by or about Samuel D. Gross, MD or his family members from 1856-1934. Types of materials within the collection include addresses (1856-1882) to Jefferson Medical College and the American Surgical Association, correspondence (1861, 1876-1883, 1934 - with gaps), medical journal articles (1857-1884), lecture notes (some believed to be the work of Samuel W. Gross); and one scrapbook containing obituaries and sympathy letters