Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century

Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century. Edited bv Samuel D. Gross, M.D., Professor of burgery in the Jefferson Medical College of .Philadelphia.?Jr/nlacleCphia and London. 1861. pp. 836. When the editor of this book acknowledges a " lamentable deficiency" in native medical biography, it can hardly be necessary for us to apologise for an ignorance of American literature of a special kind, as great as and more excusable than his own. Not that we mean to imply that he has really anything in the way of ignorance of which to be