Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (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 This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated), we have divided the book into five parts.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 2 includes Syndesmology and Myology.


By : Henry Gray (1827 - 1861)

01 - Syndesmology: Introduction 02 - Development and Classification of Joints; Movement Admitted in Joints 03 - Articulations of the Vertebral Column 04 - Articulation of Atlas with Epistropheus; of Vertebral Column with Cranium 05 - Articulation of the Mandible 06 - Costovertebral Articulations 07 - Sternocostal Articulations; Articulation of Manubrium and Body of Sternum 08 - Articulation of Vertebral Column with Pelvis; Articulations of Pelvis 09 - Sternoclavicular Articulation 10 - Acromioclavicular Articulation 11 - Humeral Articulation or Shoulder-joint 12 - Elbow-joint 13 - Radioulnar Articulation; Radiocarpal Articulation 14 - Intercarpal Articulations 15 - Carpometacarpal, Intermetacarpal, and Metacarpophalangeal Articulations; Articulations of Digits 16 - Coxal Articulations or Hip-joint 17 - The Knee-joint, part 1 18 - The Knee-joint, part 2 19 - Articulations between Tibia and Fibula 20 - Talocrural Articulation or Ankle-joint 21 - Intertarsal Articulations 22 - Tarsometatarsal, Intermetatarsal Articulations 23 - Metatarsophalangeal Articulations; Articulations of Digits; Arches of Foot 24 - Myology 25 - Mechanics of Muscle 26 - Development of the Muscles 27 - Tendons, Aponeuroses, and Fasciae 28 - Muscles of the Scalp, Eyelid, and Nose 29 - Muscles of the Mouth 30 - Muscles of Mastication 31 - Superficial Cervical Muscle; Lateral Cervical Muscle 32 - Supra- and Infrahyoid Muscles 33 - Anterior Vertebral Muscles; Lateral Vertebral Muscles 34 - Deep Muscles of the Back 35 - Suboccipital Muscles 36 - Muscles of the Thorax, part 1 37 - Muscles of the Thorax, part 2 38 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Abdomen, part 1 39 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Abdomen, part 2 40 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Pelvis 41 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Perineum 42 - Muscles Connecting the Upper Extremity to the Vertebral Column 43 - Muscles Connecting the Upper Extremity to the Anterior and Lateral Thoracic Walls 44 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Shoulder 45 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Arm 46 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Forearm, part 1 47 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Forearm, part 2 48 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Hand 49 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Iliac Region 50 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Thigh, part 1 51 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Thigh, part 2 52 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Leg, part 1 53 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Leg, part 2 54 - Fasciae Around the Ankle 55 - Muscles and Fasciae of the Foot

Book Section :

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.