John Green Crosse

John Green Crosse, FRCS, FRS (6 September 1790 – 9 June 1850) was a well-known English surgeon of his day, at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Among his publications were Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris, describing hospital practice there, and A History of the Variolous Epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819.

In 1833 he won the Jacksonian prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for The Formation, Constituents, and Extraction of the Urinary Calculus.

Not receiving a diploma there, Crosse (who had added an 'e' to his surname in line with several of his paternal ancestors) left Dublin and went to Paris, where he spent the winter of 1814–15.

[1] Crosse worked with his colleague John Yelloly on bladder stones, and their results were published in Philosophical Transactions in 1829 and 1830.

[3] In 1833 he obtained the Jacksonian prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for a work on The Formation, Constituents, and Extraction of the Urinary Calculus, which was published in 1835, with illustrations by the Norwich artist Obadiah Short.