Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 5 (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 This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may be outdated).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 5 includes Splanchnology and Surface Anatomy and Markings.

By : Henry Gray (1827 - 1861)

01 - The Respiratory Apparatus 02 - The Larynx, part 1 03 - The Larynx, part 2 04 - The Trachea and Bronchi 05 - The Pleurae; The Mediastinum 06 - The Lungs 07 - The Digestive Apparatus 08 - The Mouth, part 1 09 - The Mouth, part 2 10 - The Mouth, part 3 11 - The Mouth, part 4 12 - The Mouth, part 5 13 - The Fauces 14 - The Pharynx 15 - The Esophagus 16 - The Abdomen, part 1 17 - The Abdomen, part 2 18 - The Stomach 19 - The Small Intestine, part 1 20 - The Small Intestine, part 2 21 - The Large Intestine, part 1 22 - The Large Intestine, part 2 23 - The Liver, part 1 24 - The Liver, part 2 25 - The Pancreas 26 - Dev. of Urinary and Generative Organs, part 1 27 - Dev. of Urinary and Generative Organs, part 2 28 - The Kidneys, part 1 29 - The Kidneys, part 2 30 - The Ureters 31 - The Urinary Bladder 32 - The Male Urethra; The Female Urethra 33 - The Testes and their Coverings, part 1 34 - The Testes and their Coverings, part 2 35 - Ductus Deferens; Vesiculae Seminales; Ejac. Ducts 36 - The Penis 37 - The Prostate; Bulbourethral Glands 38 - Female Genital Organs; Ovaries; Uterine Tube 39 - The Uterus 40 - The Vagina; External Organs 41 - The Mammae 42 - The Ductless Glands; Thyroid; Parathyroid 43 - The Thymus 44 - The Hypophysis Cerebri; Pineal Body 45 - The Chromaphil and Cortical Systems 46 - The Spleen 47 - Surface Anatomy of Head and Neck 48 - Surface Markings of Spec. Reg. of Head and Neck, part 1 49 - Surface Markings of Spec. Reg. of Head and Neck, part 2 50 - Surface Anatomy, Surface Markings of Back 51 - Surface Anatomy, Surface Markings of Thorax 52 - Surface Anatomy of Abdomen 53 - Surface Markings of Abdomen 54 - Surface Anatomy, Surface Markings of Perineum 55 - Surface Anatomy of Upper Extremity, part 1 56 - Surface Anatomy of Upper Extremity, part 2 57 - Surface Markings of Upper Extremity 58 - Surface Anatomy of Lower Extremity 59 - Surface Markings of Lower Extremity

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.