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of Wounds of the Intestine," which reached a third edition, 1843.

"A Practical Treatise on Diseases, Inquiries and Malformations of the Urinary Bladder, the Prostate Gland and the Urethra," 1851.

"A Practical Treatise on Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages," and many other papers and translations.

Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons, 1S61.

Am. J. M. S.. Phila.. 18S4, n. s., lxxxviii (por- trait). I. N. Hays. Brit. M. Jour., Lon., 1884, vol. i. J. Am. M. Ass., Chicago, 1884, vol. ii (J. N. Toner).

Med. Record, N. Y., 1884, vol. xxv. N. York Med. Jour., 1884, vol. xxxix. Tr. Coll., Phys., Phila., 1884, 3 s., vol. vii. Hist, of Med. in Phila. Dr. F. P. Henry, Chicago, 1897.

Samuel D. Gross. An Autobiog. Phila., 1887 (port.).

Gross, Samuel Weissel (1837-1889).

It is very rare to find genius burn- ing as brightly in son as in father; more frequently its rays are brightest in nephew or grandson, but great learn- ing with regard to surgery and an acute power of diagnosis descended to Sam- uel Weissel, son of the famous Samuel D. Gross and born in Cincinnati Feb- ruary 4, 1837. As a lad he went to school at Shelby College, Kentucky; studied medicine at Louisville Univer- sity and at Jefferson College, grad- uating March, 1857, then settled to practice in Philadelphia, becoming bet- ter known by his writings than his ordinary medical practice. In 1S59 he reported in the November "American Medico-Chirurgical Review" "Aneurysm of the Right Femoral Artery cured by Digital Compression with Remarks on Twenty-two Other Cases so Treated." In the October number of the "Ameri- can Journal of the Medical Sciences," 1867, he had a review of sixty pages on eleven French and German works on "Military Surgery" and gave statistics of over thirteen — afterwards enlarged by 20,933 amputations for gunshot injuries. His predilection for studying tumors and

malignant growths may be seen in his paper on "Sarcoma of the Long Bones" ("American Journal of the Medical Sciences," 1879), his monograph on "Tumors of the Mammary Gland" and his "Tumors of the Breast, " written for the "American System of Gynecology," edited by Mann. His writings were distinguished by their exactness of ob- servation and induction, clearness of expression and practical application. His somewhat early death in 1889 pre- vented his adding valuable writings, and even on his desk when he died there was a manuscript on "Stone in Chil- dren," which he was preparing for a cyclopedia on "Diseases of Children."

He was a member of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, the Philadelphia Pathological Society, the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania; surgeon to the Howard Hospital, to the Phila- delphia Hospital, the Jefferson Medical College Hospital; lecturer to the last college on geni to-urinary organs and clinical surgeon to its hospital.

He married in December, 1876.

Hist, of Med. in Phila. F. P. Henry. Chi- cago, 1897.

Med. News., Phila., 18S9, liv. Med. Rec, N. York, 1889, xxxv. J. Am. Med. Assoc, 18S9, xii. Tr. Am. Surg. Ass., Phila., 1S89, vii (J. E. Mears). A portrait in theSurg.-gen. Lib., Wash., D. C.

Gundry, Richard (1830-1891).

Richard Gundry was born at Hamp- stead, London, England, October 14, 1830. His father, the Rev. Jonathan Gundry, was a Baptist clergyman who early imbued his son with a love of learning and was able to send him to a private school in the neighborhood, where he gained his first knowledge of the classic.-. At lifteen he came with his parents to Simcoe, Canada, where after a brief period of study in a Latin school he was thrown largely upon his own resources. lie obtained the means for pursuing his professional education by writing in the office of an attorney and liegan to study medicine under