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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Gamaliel Bailey, Samuel D. Gross, Robert Gallo, Tiny Maxwell, John Heysham Gibbon, Fred D. Lublin, Orlando Plummer, Evan O'Neill Kane, Ninian Pinkney, J. Marion Sims, William Williams Keen, James F. Masterson, Silas Weir Mitchell, James Ewing Mears, Legrand G. Capers, Henry L. Nichols, Carl Rogers Darnall, William Glenn, Joseph W. Eschbach, Herb Conaway, Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck, Peter Charles Remondino, Fisk Holbrook Day, Malcolm C. Grow, John Glasgow Kerr, Albert E. Austin, John Martyn Harlow, Leonard J. Cerullo, Austin Flint, Monica Morrow, John William Jones, George R. Robbins, Zedekiah Kidwell, Charles Skelton, Edward Hazen Parker, E. R. Squibb, Frank E. Wilson, Isaac Newton Evans, Joseph Henderson, Andrew Jackson Barchfeld, Robert Battey, Edmund W. Samuel, David Addison Reese, Eli Fromm, John Flournoy Henry, John Roberts Reading, Louis Livingston Seaman, James Strudwick Smith, Nathan Gaither, Thomas H. Averett, John Alexander Morrison, Tom Bentley Throckmorton. Excerpt: Samuel David Gross (July 8, 1805 - May 6, 1884) 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), perhaps the most important American painting of the nineteenth century. Born on a farm near Easton, Pennsylvania, Gross developed an interest in plants, trees, and flowers. He grew up speaking Pennsylvania Dutch, a dialect of German, and supposedly resolved to be a doctor when he was only five years old. At the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a local physician, then another, but both of these experiences soon proved unsatisfactory. He then started to work under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph K. Swift, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Swift realized quickly that Gross' rudimentary education was...
