. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . is surgical museum to the College of Physiciansof Philadelphia and endowed a lectureship there. J. , of New York; John llhea Barton, of Phila-delphia; William Gibson, of Philadelphia ; Gurdon Buck,of New York; Willard Parker, of New York; Frank , of New York, who made his reputation whileteaching in our Buffalo school, author of a most popidarand valuable treatise upon fractures and disloc
. An epitome of the history of medicine. By Roswell Park ... Based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. 2d ed. Illustrated with portraits and other engravings . is surgical museum to the College of Physiciansof Philadelphia and endowed a lectureship there. J. , of New York; John llhea Barton, of Phila-delphia; William Gibson, of Philadelphia ; Gurdon Buck,of New York; Willard Parker, of New York; Frank , of New York, who made his reputation whileteaching in our Buffalo school, author of a most popidarand valuable treatise upon fractures and dislocations; andHenry B. Sands, of New York, were men of greatestprominence during the middle and latter portion of thepresent century, each of whom has contributed in his wayeither to the science or to tlic literature of surgery. Themost prominent figure in American surgery of the past 294 THE HISTORY OF xMEDICINE. forty years was Samuel D. Gross, of Philadelphia, pro-fessor in the Jefferson School, to which he moved fromKentucky, where he laid the foundation for his attainmentsand reputation. He was an early writer upon surgicalpathology and anatomy, but is best known for his elaborate. Fig. 51.—S. D. Gross, , (From a photograph.) System of Surgery, in two large volumes, which has sur-vived several editions and is still most highly others who ought to be mentioned are Nathan , of Baltimore, the inventor of the anterior splint;Paul F. Eve, of Nashville ; John T. Hodgen, of St. Louis; NOTABLE AMERICAN SURGEONS. 295 Daniel Brainard, of Chicago, and his successor, MosesGunn; Alden March, of Albany ; Henry J. Bigelovv, ofBoston, who performed the first excision of the hip inthis country, in 1852, and who invented the methodof crushing and removing stone from the bladder at asingle operation, known as litholapaxy; and D. HayesAgnew, of Philadelphia, who finished, before his death,a large and elaborate treatise on surgery, in three thickvolumes. Of obste
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