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Dr. Gross was considered the greatest American surgeon of his time.He trained more than a generation of surgeons at Jefferson Medical College, and was the author of A Manual of Military Surgery (1861), the military field surgery manual used by the Union Army during the Civil War (and subsequently used by the Confederate States Army).He later served as president of the American Medical Association and was a founder and the first president of the American Surgical Association.
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