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Flaxmoore t1_izszkjj wrote

Reply to comment by whoiskamalsingh in TIL Henry Gray published the first edition of 'Gray's Anatomy', which covered 750 pages and contained 363 figures at the age of 31 years. At the age of 26, he obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred guineas for a dissertation "On the structure and Use of Spleen." by whoiskamalsingh

> Last's anatomy, Snell's anatomy etc

In the US, Moore and Netter are kings. Moore is a bit better for practical anatomy (injuries and whatnot) and Netter is kind of the spiritual heir of Gray. Googling (guessing you're in the UK?) Last shows his stuff is more along the line of Netter.

My only problem with Gray is his incredibly dense verbiage which makes it hard to glean out exactly where he's trying to direct you.

For example, picking the posterior tibial artery (because that's what the book fell open to) Gray states: > The posterior tibial is an artery of large size, which extends obliquely downward from the lower border of the Popliteus muscle, along the tibial side of the leg, to the fossa between the inner ankle and the heel, where it divides beneath the origin of the Abductor Hallucis, on a level with a line drawn from the point of the internal malleolus to the centre of the convexity of the hell, into the internal and external plantar arteries.

Netter skips the verbiage and throws a picture at it.

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whoiskamalsingh OP t1_izszwke wrote

I am from India, and I totally agree with your points. I studied Last's anatomy in 1998.

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atlantis_airlines t1_izvdnvd wrote

It's an accurate description and I get the idea but it really does demonstrate how a "picture is worth a thousand words"

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UniqueTotalUsername t1_izwixn6 wrote

Yeah but Netter’s is an atlas, Gray’s is a textbook. You can’t really compare them imo

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herbw t1_j03fsia wrote

we mostly used Netters in med school.

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herbw t1_j03feus wrote

Where we studied, Gray's was rather relegated to the antique books section. Much new had been found and the language in Gray's was so opaque to modern readers, that we just ignored it, gathering dust.

Since then more accurate descriptions & modern, clearer language is being used.

Gray's is more like talking about antique books & Hx of med, than modern texts. IOW human anatomy moved on, and Gray's stagnated into oblivion.

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