Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (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 This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated).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 4 includes Neurology, the Organs of the Senses, and the Common Integument.

By : Henry Gray (1827 - 1861)

01 - Neurology; Structure of the Nervous System, part 1 02 - Structure of the Nervous System, part 2 03 - Development of the Nervous System, part 1 04 - Development of the Nervous System, part 2 05 - The Spinal Cord, part 1 06 - The Spinal Cord, part 2 07 - The Spinal Cord, part 3 08 - The Brain; The Hind-Brain, part 1 09 - The Hind-Brain, part 2 10 - The Hind-Brain, part 3 11 - The Hind-Brain, part 4 12 - The Mid-Brain 13 - The Fore-Brain, part 1 14 - The Fore-Brain, part 2 15 - The Fore-Brain, part 3 16 - The Fore-Brain, part 4 17 - The Fore-Brain, part 5 18 - Composition and Central Connections of Spinal Nerves 19 - Composition and Connections of Cranial Nerves, part 1 20 - Composition and Connections of Cranial Nerves, part 2 21 - Composition and Connections of Cranial Nerves, part 3 22 - Composition and Connections of Cranial Nerves, part 4 23 - Pathways from the Brain to the Spinal Cord 24 - Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis, part 1 25 - Meninges of the Brain and Medulla Spinalis, part 2; Cerebrospinal Fluid 26 - Cranial Nerves; Olfactory Nerves; Optic Nerve 27 - Oculomotor Nerve; Trochlear Nerve 28 - Trigeminal Nerve, part 1 29 - Trigeminal Nerve, part 2 30 - Abducent Nerve; Facial Nerve 31 - Acoustic Nerve; Glossopharyngeal Nerve 32 - Vagus Nerve 33 - Accessory Nerve; Hypoglossal Nerve 34 - The Spinal Nerves 35 - Posterior Divisions 36 - Anterior Divisions, part 1 37 - Anterior Divisions, part 2 38 - Anterior Divisions, part 3 39 - The Thoracic Nerves 40 - The Lumbosacral Plexus 41 - Sacral and Coccygeal Nerves, part 1 42 - Sacral and Coccygeal Nerves, part 2 43 - The Sympathetic Nerves 44 - Cephalic and Cervical Portions of Sympathetic System 45 - Thoracic, Abdominal, and Pelvic Portions of Sympathetic System 46 - Great Plexuses of the Sympathetic System 47 - The Organs of the Senses; the Organs of Taste 48 - The Organ of Smell 49 - The Organ of Sight 50 - Tunics of the Eye, part 1 51 - Tunics of the Eye, part 2 52 - The Refracting Media 53 - Accessory Organs of the Eye, part 1 54 - Accessory Organs of the Eye, part 2 55 - The Organ of Hearing 56 - The External Ear 57 - The Middle Ear or Tympanic Cavity 58 - The Auditory Ossicles 59 - The Internal Ear or Labyrinth, part 1 60 - The Internal Ear or Labyrinth, part 2 61 - Peripheral Terminations of Nerves of General Sensations 62 - The Common Integument, part 1 63 - The Common Integument, part 2

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.