Penza State University Dentistry Department History Project

June 1861) was a British anatomist and surgeon

Student: Mahmoud Seyam
Group: 19lc2a
Professor :

Tatiana Gavrilova

Surgeons for an essay entitled 
The Origin, Connexions
Distribution of nerves to the human

 
appendages, illustrated by comparative dissections of the eye in other vertebrate animals. 

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

750 pages and contained 363 figures

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. The excellence of Carter's illustrations contributed greatly to the initial success of the book.

was prepared by Gray and published in 1860.

deadly type of the disease where individual lesions become so

numerous that they join as a continuous, "confluent" sheet.

He is assumed to have been infected due to his extended and meticulous caring for his ten-year-old nephew, Charles Gray, who did eventually recover.

as a final candidate for a prestigious post at the

St. George's Hospital, he died in London - 13 June 1861 


At the age of 34 He was buried at St James, Pancras and Highgate Cemetery.  Gray had been vaccinated against smallpox as a child with one of the early forms of the vaccine.

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.19
^ 1851 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
^ Flatt, AE (October 2009). "Happy birthday, Gray's Anatomy". Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 22 (4): 342–5

Geo Han Sq - Henry Gray
^ "DServe Archive Persons Show". .royalsociety.org.

Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ Richardson, Ruth (2009). "The making of Mr. Gray's anatomy Bodies, books, fortune, fame". J Clin Invest. 119 (5): 1056. doi:10.1172/JCI39002. PMC 2673841.
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.
Pearce, J M S (April 2009). "Henry Gray's Anatomy". Clinical Anatomy. United States. 22