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Other people|Henry GrayInfobox scientist|name = Henry Gray|image = Henry Gray bw photo portrait.jpg|image_size =|caption =|birth_date = 1827|birth_place = Belgravia, London|death_date = death date and age|1861|06|13|1827|01|01|df=yes|death_place = Belgravia, London|residence = Great Britain |citizenship =|nationality =|ethnicity =|fields = Anatomy|workplaces =|alma_mater =|doctoral_advisor =|academic_advisors =|doctoral_students =|notable_students =|known_for = '' Gray's Anatomy |author_abbrev_bot =|author_abbrev_zoo =|influences =|influenced =|awards =|religion =|signature = |footnotes = Henry Gray (1827 - 13& nbsp;June 1861) was an English anatomist and surgery|surgeon most notable for publishing the book '' Gray's Anatomy . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the age of& nbsp;25.
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He was born in Belgravia , London , in 1827 1841 census for 8 Wilton Street, St Geo Han Sq: Henry Gray, age rounded to 15yrs (implies born 1826), medical student, whether born in this county = Yes (implies born Middlesex) - HO107/732 Bk.2 f.28 p.191851 census: Henry Gray, house surgeon aged 24 (implies born 1827), of St Geo Han Sq, born St George's Hanover Square, London - HO107/1478 f.649 p.1 and lived most of his life in London.
In 1845, Gray entered as a student at St George's Hospital|St. 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.
While still a student, in 1848 he secured the triennial prize of Royal College of Surgeons of England|Royal College of Surgeons 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 twenty five, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , and in the following year he obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred Guinea (British coin)|guineas for a dissertation “On the structure and Use of Spleen ”.
In 1858 Gray published the first edition of '' Gray's Anatomy|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 (physiologist)|Benjamin Collins Brodie , Baronet|Bart , Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS , Doctor of Civil Law|DCL . A second edition was prepared by Gray and published in 1860. The book is still published under the title Gray's Anatomy and is widely appreciated as an extraordinary and authoritative textbook for Medical school#Medical students|medical students .
He 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. He was struck by an attack of confluent smallpox , which he contracted while looking after a nephew who was suffering from that disease. He died in London on June 13 cite journal|pmc=2760169 | pmid=19865508 | volume=22 | issue=4 | title=Happy birthday, Gray's Anatomy | year=2009 | month=October | journal=Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) | pages=342–5 at the age of 34 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.GRO Register of Deaths: JUN qtr 1861 1a 174 St Geo Han Sq - Henry Gray http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe? dsqIni=Dserve.ini& dsqApp=Archive& dsqCmd=Show.tcl& dsqDb=Persons& dsqSearch=%28Surname=%27gray%27%29& dsqPos=7
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Some information was extracted from an article which appeared in the St. George's Hospital Gazette of 21 May 1908 and has been taken directly from Gray’s Anatomy-Thirty-seventh International Student Edition.
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|last=Pearce |first=J M S |year= 2009 |month=Apr. |title=Henry Gray's Anatomy |journal= Clinical anatomy |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=291–5 |publisher= |location = United States | pmid = 19280653 |doi = 10.1002/ca.20775 | bibcode = | url = | accessdate =
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/06220300R First American edition of Gray's Anatomy (Philadelphia, 1859)
Persondata|NAME= Gray, Henry |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION=English anatomist, author of Gray's Anatomy |DATE OF BIRTH= 1827 |PLACE OF BIRTH=Belgravia, London |DATE OF DEATH= 13& nbsp;June 1861 |PLACE OF DEATH=Belgravia, London DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Henry Category:1827 births Category:1861 deaths Category:English anatomists Category:English surgeons Category:Deaths from smallpox Category:Alumni of St George's, University of London Category:British textbook writers Category:Infectious disease deaths in England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:People from Belgravia
