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Facsimile Reprint of 1858 edition. By Henry Gray. 750 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1991. $100. ISBN 0-8151-3851-2.

It is not often that a medical textbook survives through multiple editions over a period of more than 130 years, but Gray's Anatomy has managed to do just that. When it was first published in 1858, it was considered a superb textbook. Gray's intention was to provide not only a textbook for the student, but also a guide to surgical anatomy for the practitioner; the book was highly recommended for both. Other anatomy books that were available before 1858 were large atlases, small dissection manuals devoid of illustrations, or surgical descriptions, but none combined all these elements concisely in one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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