Co-author of “surgeon’s Bible” Schwartz dies

Seymour Schwartz, an influential surgeon and medical teacher who co-wrote a seminal surgical textbook for medical students, has died at 92. The surgeon, whose storied medical career began at the University of Rochester in 1950, died Friday at the home of his son in St. Louis, Missouri.

The university announced the death in a statement but didn’t provide a cause of death.

Schwartz began his career at a time when X-rays made it less necessary to perform exploratory surgery. The American College of Surgeons named Schwartz an icon of surgery in 2017. He served as president of three national surgical societies, and editor-in-chief of several surgical journals.