Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 41e

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Carefully selected electronic enhancements include additional text , tables , illustrations , labelled imaging and videos - as well as 24 specially invited 'Commentaries' on new and emerging topics related to anatomy. Dissecting unclaimed bodies from workhouse and hospital mortuaries through the Anatomy Act of 1832, the two worked for 18 months on what would form the basis of the book. A team of authors with a wealth of diverse teaching and clinical experience has updated and revised this new edition to efficiently cover what you’re learning in contemporary anatomy classes. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves.

HENRY GRAY (1827-1861) was a renowned British anatomist who studied at St George\'s Hospital Medical School in London. The American medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2005–present) is a play on words referring to both the textbook and the name of the series' lead character.

Keen edited the next two editions, namely: the New American from the Eleventh English Edition (September 1887); and the New American from the Thirteenth English Edition (September 1893).

Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS(ED), FRCR, DO(Hon), FHEA, Professor of Clinical Anatomy, Warwick Medical School, UK Professor of Clinical Anatomy, St Georges University, Grenada, W. In the 1998 Star Trek: Voyager episode " Message in a Bottle", the new Emergency Medical Hologram designed by Ensign Kim begins reciting the contents of Gray's Anatomy when activated, beginning with a description of the cell. Abrahams, MBBS, FRCS(ED), FRCR, DO(Hon), FHEA, Professor of Clinical Anatomy, Warwick Medical School, UK Professor of Clinical Anatomy, St Georges University, Grenada, W. I., Extraordinary Professor, Dept of Anatomy, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Examiner, MRCS, Royal College of Surgeons (UK), Family Practitioner, London, UK;; Stephen W. After more than 160 years of continuous publication, Gray’s Anatomy remains the definitive, comprehensive reference on the subject, offering ready access to the information you need to ensure safe, effective practice.Three years later, Gray died from smallpox, but his legacy was ensured, and his great book has never been out of print since. George’s Hospital, London (then situated in Belgravia, now in Tooting), and he is described by those who knew him as a most painstaking and methodical worker, and one who learnt his anatomy by the slow but invaluable method of making dissections for himself. Gray's Anatomy', the renowned classic anatomical book by Henry Gray was first published in 1858 and is considered by many to be one of the most iconic and significant medical books of all time. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. The result is a more complete, practical and engaging resource than ever before, which will prove invaluable to all clinicians who require an accurate, in-depth knowledge of anatomy.

He qualified as a doctor at the medical school and was later commissioned to make anatomical drawings. 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”. This is a Taiwan pirated edition -- a printing of diminished quality done without permission of the copyright holder. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the book that Tom catches Becky Thatcher reading, and from which she tears a page, is implied to be Gray's Anatomy.Historian Ruth Richardson, of the Department of History at the University of Hertfordshire and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, weaves a wonderful tale of dissection, medicine, publishing, printing, illustration, marketing, and sales that culminates in the book often referred to as the “doctor’s bible. The newest (2015) and the 41 st edition of Gray's Anatomy is a mirror on the explosion of medical knowledge that has occurred over the past 8 years since the 40 th edition was published. The fact that it is the Barnes and Noble Leatherbound edition just makes it all that much prettier and fun.

e. there were separate sections for the body's entire skeletal system, entire circulatory system and entire nervous system, etc. It was published just prior to the American Civil War and was available during that conflict, being of timely importance to have an impact on medical military field care of the grievously wounded brave soldiers in both armies, needing the best available care after battles.Moreover, the second of the College’s two copies of the 1st edition (Copy B) appears to be extremely rare and possibly unique among library copies in that it remains in its embossed brown cloth binding, just as it was purchasable for 28 shillings for use by a student in 1858.