HENRY GRAY, ANATOMIST

Notes of an Anatomist

Molecular Cell Biology aims to present the essential elements of genetics, biochemistry, and cell biology. The 1,187-page text attempts to integrate molecular biology with biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics, giving insight into such fascinating problems as development, immunology, and cancer. This 25-chapter college textbook is no more difficult to read than the basic textbooks encountere...

Remembering Dr. Henry W. Gray (1827-1861) and His Timeless Contribution to Modern Medical Education.

Style and non-style in anatomical illustration: From Renaissance Humanism to Henry Gray.

Style is a familiar category for the analysis of art. It is less so in the history of anatomical illustration. The great Renaissance and Baroque picture books of anatomy illustrated with stylish woodcuts and engravings, such as those by Charles Estienne, Andreas Vesalius and Govard Bidloo, showed figures in dramatic action in keeping with philosophical and theological ideas about human nature. ...

Henry Ormerod

at the age of 68, belonged to a family of surgeons. He was educated at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Medical School, and very soon after qualifying he settled at Westbury. Although his capacity for work was immense, yet in the early years of his practice he had more than one attack of haemoptysis, and it was his opinion that leading a country open-air life had been the means of warding off mo...

Henry Wellcome

fo'c'sle-study running his naval household with the aid of an Admiralty of natural history suppliers and breeders, as well as experts like Lyell, Hooker and the young Huxley in every port. Beatrice Webb once likened Herbert Spencer to a spider collecting facts on the theoretical web he was spinning; the image equally well suits Darwin. A pleasure to read, this exciting new biography deepens our...