"The long-standing textbook, ""Anatomy"", by Henry Gray (1827-1861) owed much of its effectiveness to the illustrations which were drawn by whom?"
Gray's Anatomy centers on a doctor visiting a small town in Indiana in 1880, takes its title as a play on "Gray's Anatomy". In Dan Brown's 2013 novel "Inferno", Sienna Brooks, as a child, reads all the 1,600 pages of "Gray's Anatomy" in ten days. In the ABC television series "The Good Doctor" (2017–present), the lead character, Dr. Shaun Murphy, an autistic savant, often visualizes illustrations from "Gray's Anatomy" as he mentally diagnoses a patient's condition. Gray's Anatomy Gray's Anatomy is an English language textbook of human anatomy originally written by Henry Gray and illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter. Earlier editions were
Henry Gray Henry Gray 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