Anatomy
1858
- anatomie humaine
- anatomy
- artistic anatomy
- dissection
- human anatomy
- manuels
- manuals
- illlustrations
- surgical and topographical anatomy
- anatomie
The story
An unabridged edition of "Gray's Anatomy", the scientific and artistic triumph. Kept in print by its clarity and usefulness, the text features sumptuous illustrations and clear, matter-of-fact descriptions. It is illustrated with morethan 500 clinical drawings by H.V. Carter. This is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and names, Gray's lets the natural beauty and grace of the body's interconnected systems and structures shine forth from the page. Using sumptuous illustrations and clear, matter-of-fact descriptions, Dr. Gray unleashed a classic on the world more than 100 years ago. Its clarity and usefulness keep it in print today. Whether you want to understand yourself or others, knowledge of our physical parts and how they fit together is essential. "Gray's Anatomy" provides that information in a simple, timeless format that cleanly dissects a body of knowledge grown over centuries. This unabridged book will not only fill the needs of people in the medical profession, but will please artists and naturalists as well.
What it’s like
Dense rows of engraved plates in fine black line, with muscles, nerves and vessels drawn in careful layers, lift pale tissue off plain white paper and quiet margins. The prose is level and unhurried, a steady catalogue of parts that reads more like patient instruction than drama, its sentences exact and clipped. The feel is cool, scholarly and faintly hushed, best suited to a library desk under a lamp on a weekday afternoon or a slow dip into one section at a time between other things. There is no narrative pull; it moves region by region and system by system, so the rhythm is one of accumulation and returning to look again. Emotionally it stays detached and clinical, with a quiet wonder at how neatly the body fits together. Intensity is moderate: dissected bodies, cut sections and exposed organs appear in the drawings and descriptions, unsettling in a matter-of-fact way but never gory for effect, with no violence and nothing sexual. It suits medical students, artists studying the figure, naturalists and curious readers who want to understand how their own bodies are built.
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