Over the years editions charted not only the history of medical knowledge and imaging techniques, but also the changing styles and techniques of medical illustration. The first edition was published in and to date 40 further editions have been produced.
Henry Vandyke Carter brought the text of the book to life with images characterised by their clarity and quality. The illustrations were key to securing the huge success of the work. Apart from clear illustrations what made the work so important that it has never been out of print almost years since it was first published?
What Carter chose to leave out, as much as what he chose to show was of equal importance. His editing of the structures he was drawing to emphasise what was of functional and practical importance to the dissector, student, and surgeon made the book indispensable to its readers.
Gray was awarded prizes by the College for anatomical essays, and Carter was a student in anatomy at the College, working at the Hunterian Museum with such influential figures as Curator, Richard Owen, and Conservator, John Quekett. The images mounted on sheets are the very first set of proof impressions taken from the boxwood blocks produced by engravers Butterworth and Heath for the 1st edition.
These were donated to the RCS in August and are undoubtedly unique, near original material. Henry Vandyke Carter drew directly on to the printing blocks [in reverse] and the images for printing were then cut directly from his drawings. No set of preliminary drawings survives, making these proofs even more significant.
Nevertheless, the set was still short of a few editions, so we have been actively filling the gaps since then to strengthen the collection. The 41 st edition also includes a widely expanded, interactive Expert Consult e-Book version, which includes ancillaries such as an Image Atlas, topical commentaries and video catalogue. Its traditional artwork and clear text has been further honed and enhanced, while major advances in imaging techniques and the newest insights they bring are fully captured in new state-of-the-art x-ray, CT, MR and ultrasound images.
The completely reconfigured accompanying eBook version is enhanced with additional content and media, covering all the body regions, cell biology and embryogenesis. It established an enduring standard among anatomical texts. About Elsevier As a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M. Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body or Gray's Anatomy as it has commonly been shortened is an English-language human anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on the subject. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in the United Kingdom in , and the following year in the United States. While studying the anatomical effects of infectious diseases, Gray contracted smallpox from his dying nephew and died shortly after the publication of the second edition, at the age of Work on his much-praised book was continued by others and on November 24 , , the 39th British edition was released.
The British anatomist Henry Gray was born in He studied the development of the endocrine glands and spleen and in was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London. In he approached his colleague Dr Henry Vandyke Carter with his idea to produce an anatomy text book for medical students.
His death came just 3 years after the publication of his Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical. Between and , seven editions of the text book were published in Great Britain, with the 9th edition published in It was during this period that development of the book appears to have branched with the publishing of the first dedicated U.
While development of the British edition of the text continued and new British editions continued to appear , different U.
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