Seymour Schwartz (1928 – 2020), founding editor of definitive surgery textbook
Seymour Schwartz was the founding editor of an influential and essential medical textbook, “Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery.”Schwartz was affiliated with the University of Rochester for decades, having completed his internship there in 1950 and gone on to practice at the university’s Strong Memorial Hospital. In 1969, he was one of six editors of the new textbook “Principles of Surgery,” and his fellow editors named him editor in chief.