Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical

I purchased this book for my art, to create collages and delve into medicine, human anatomy, and the "creepiness" of the human body in my art. As a book itself, it is beautifully illustrated. I never read it as a whole, though.

The original version was a beautiful book. What did they do to it?

This book is the Medical Bible, I highly suggest this for newcomers unto the medical world. Search not high nor below, but within.

Obviously not up to date with today’s medicine, however this in itself makes it interesting.

This is a very good book if you are like me and use it for artistic reference. While it doesn't contain a lot of colorful pictures it is just enough to give you some insight into how the human anatomy is constructed and moves. It is also good to refer to when you read an article about Jennifer Aniston and you want to know what a septum is.

Gray's Anatomy, first published in 1858, is thought by the average layman to be merely a historical classic, and is usually purchased as a paperback reprint of the 1905 version.If you want the most up-to-date description of human anatomy, steer clear of the paperbacks and buy the 38th edition in hardback. It costs a lot more, but it is more than worth it. It contains an amazing amount of technical information that has only been discovered in the last ten or twenty years (such as the spiral architecture of the heart, MRI imagery, and details of microbiology and cellur arcitecture). It even contains a nice summary of the history of the universe. If I had the rest of my life (I'm a 35-year old engineer) to do nothing but read this book, I could not come close to absorbing all knowledge it contains.I firmly believe that this is the most important book I own.I recommend this book highly to anyone who wishes to learn more about the marvelous machine that is the human body.

Selected for "Core Collection in Nursing and the Allied Health Sciences" from Oryx Press, 1990.