Mark Bostridge
On the Slab
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy
By Bill Hayes
Bellevue Literary Press 250pp £10.99 order from our bookshop
Gray’s Anatomy was first published in Britain in 1858, and an American edition appeared the following year. With its terse, descriptive prose and spellbindingly intricate illustrations of the human body, the book immediately established itself as an essential reference work for the medical profession on both sides of the Atlantic. In more than a century and a half since its original publication, it has never gone out of print and has sold an estimated five million copies. The book’s recent fortieth edition brought itself up to date with state-of-the-art material on neuroimaging, embryogenesis, and biomechanics.
@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Last Tweets