The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy (28 page)

About the Author

B
ILL
H
AYES
is the author of the national bestseller
Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir
and
Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.
His work has been published in
The New York Times Magazine
and
Details,
among other publications, and at
Salon.com
. He has also been featured on many NPR programs as well as the Discovery Health Channel. He lives in San Francisco. Visit the author’s website at
www.bill-hayes.com
.

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Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood

Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir

The Anatomist
is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.

Copyright © 2008 by William Hayes

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to St. George’s Hospital Library, London, for permission to reproduce the photographs of Henry Gray on Front Matter and Back Matter; to the Wellcome Library, London, for permission to reproduce the illustrations on Chapter Six, Chapter Eight, Chapter Sixteen, and Back Matter; to the President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for permission to reproduce the illustration on Chapter Nine (from MS. 0134, Student Diary of Henry Vandyke Carter); to The British Library, London, for permission to reproduce the photographs on Chapter Fourteen, © The British Library Board; and to Martin Duke for permission to reproduce the photograph of Henry Gray’s tombstone on Back Matter. All other images are in the public domain or are courtesy of the author.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Hayes, Bill.

The anatomist : a true story of Gray’s anatomy / Bill Hayes.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Gray, Henry, 1825–1861. 2. Gray, Henry, 1825–1861. Anatomy. 3. Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831–1897. 4. Anatomists—England—Biography. I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Gray, Henry, 1825–1861. 2. Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831–1897. 3. Anatomy—Biography. 4. Anatomy—Personal Narratives. 5. Anatomy—History. 6. History, 19th Century. 7. Students—Biography. 8. Students—Personal Narratives.
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11.1
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417a 2008]

QM16.G73H39 2008

611.0092—dc22 2007028733

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eISBN: 978-0-345-50469-2

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FOOTNOTES

1. The bodies of Franklin and his crew were finally found and exhumed in 1984, perfectly mummified in the Arctic ice. Forensic tests proved that the men had died not from exposure but from lead poisoning, transmitted via lead in the metal used for the canned goods they’d brought for the long journey.
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1. Interestingly, while Hansen’s discovery led to effective treatments for the illness, science still cannot explain the specific mode of transmission. Leprosy is now called Hansen’s disease.
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