Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy)

Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated). We have divided the book into five parts. Part 1 includes the Embryology and Osteology sections.

By: Henry Gray (1827 - 1861)

00 - Preface and Introduction 01 - Embryology; The Animal Cell 02 - The Ovum 03 - The Spermatozoon; Fertilization of the Ovum 04 - Segmentation of the Fertilized Ovum 05 - The Neutral Groove and The Yolk-sac 06 - Development of the Fetal Memories and Placenta 07 - The Branchial Region 08 - Development of Body Cavities; Form of the Embryo 09 - Osteology: Introduction; Development of the Skeleton 10 - Bone, Part 1 11 - Bone, Part 2 12 - The Vertebral Column; General Characteristics of a Vertebra 13 - The Cervical Vertebrae 14 - The Thoracic Vertebrae; The Lumbar Vertebrae 15 - The Sacral and Coccygeal Vertebrae 16 - The Vertebral Column as a Whole 17 - The Thorax; The Sternum 18 - The Ribs 19 - The Costal Cartilages 20 - The Skull; The Occipital Bone 21 - The Parietal Bone; The Frontal Bone 22 - The Temporal Bone, Part 1 23 - The Temporal Bone, Part 2 24 - The Sphenoid Bone 25 - The Ethmoid Bone 26 - The Facial Bones: The Nasal Bone; The Maxillae 27 - The Lacrimal Bone; The Zygomatic Bone 28 - The Palatine Bone 29 - The Inferior Nasal Concha; The Vomer 30 - The Mandible; The Hyoid Bone 31 - The Exterior of the Skull, Part 1 32 - The Exterior of the Skull, Part 2 33 - The Interior of the Skull, Part 1 34 - The Interior of the Skull, Part 2 35 - The Extremities; The Clavicle 36 - The Scapula 37 - The Humerus 38 - The Ulna 39 - The Radius 40 - The Carpus 41 - The Metacarpus 42 - The Phalanges of the Hand 43 - The Hip Bone 44 - The Pelvis 45 - The Femur, Part 1 46 - The Femur, Part 2 47 - The Patella; The Tibia 48 - The Fibula 49 - The Tarsus 50 - The Metatarsus; The Phalanges of the Foot 51 - Comparison of Bones of Hand and Foot; The Sesamoid Bones

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Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Grey's Anatomy)

Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Grey's Anatomy)

Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 3 (Grey's Anatomy)

Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Grey's Anatomy)

Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 5 (Grey's Anatomy)

Henry Gray (1827 – 13 June 1861) was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of 25.

Gray was born in Belgravia, London, in 1827 and lived most of his life in London. In 1842, he entered as a student at St. George’s Hospital, London (then situated in Belgravia, now moved to Tooting), and he is described by those who knew him as a most painstaking and methodical worker, and one who learned his anatomy by the slow but invaluable method of making dissections for himself.

While still a student, Gray secured the triennial prize of Royal College of Surgeons in 1848 for an essay entitled The Origin, Connexions and Distribution of nerves to the human eye and its appendages, illustrated by comparative dissections of the eye in other vertebrate animals. In 1852, at the early age of 25, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the following year he obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred guineas for a dissertation “On the structure and Use of Spleen.”

In 1858, Gray published the first edition of Anatomy, which covered 750 pages and contained 363 figures. He had the good fortune of securing the help of his friend Henry Vandyke Carter, a skilled draughtsman and formerly a demonstrator of anatomy at St. George’s Hospital. Carter made the drawings from which the engravings were executed, and the success of the book was, in the first instance, undoubtedly due in no small measure to the excellence of its illustrations. This edition was dedicated to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart, FRS, DCL. A second edition was prepared by Gray and published in 1860. The book is still published under the title Gray's Anatomy and widely appreciated as an authoritative textbook for medical students.

Gray held successively the posts of demonstrator of Anatomy, curator of the museum and Lecturer of Anatomy at St. George’s Hospital and was in 1861 a candidate for the post of assistant surgeon.

Gray was struck by an attack of confluent smallpox, the most deadly type of the disease where individual lesions become so numerous that they join as a continuous, "confluent" sheet. He is assumed to have been infected due to his extended and meticulous caring for his ten-year-old nephew, Charles Gray, who did eventually recover. On the day he was to appear for an interview as a final candidate for a prestigious post at the St. George's Hospital, he died in London - 13 June 1861 - at the age of 34. He was buried at St James, Pancras and Highgate Cemetery. Gray had been vaccinated against smallpox as a child with one of the early forms of the vaccine.