Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1914

HENRY GRAY (1825-1861) Anatomy descriptive and surgical. . . . The drawings by H. V. Carter, M.D. . . . The dissections jointly by the author and Dr. Carter. John W. Parker 1858 [1st ed.]. xxiii, 750 pp., illus. (part col.). 25.4 cm.

The author's opening statement in the Preface reads: "This work is intended to furnish the Student and Practitioner with an accurate view of the Anatomy of the Human Body, and more especially the application of this science to Practical Surgery." The success of that intention for more than a century could be proclaimed by generations of medical students and doctors of medicine in the English-speaking world. Gray was lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London, and this lasting and monumental work, produced by a young man who died young, must be compared to the Fabrica of Vesalius, who produced his great work before the age of thirty years.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 418

Gift of John Martin, M.D.