Richardson Ruth - The Making of Mr Grays Anatomy

The Making of Mr Grays Anatomy

The Making of

MR GRAYS
ANATOMY

RUTH RICHARDSON

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My first thanks are to Brian Hurwitz, who has encouraged and supported me throughout the effort of making this book; to our Boy; and to my dear Parents, whose encouragement has never failed.

This book would never have been written if Professor Susan Standring of Kings College London, had not commissioned me to write a new historical introduction to her own first edition of Grays Anatomy. My warmest thanks and admiration to her.

My Editor at Oxford University Press, Latha Menon, has been a joy and a delight to work with, and I should like also to thank Emma Marchant, Phil Henderson, Jack Sinden, Bryony Newhouse, Fiona Vlemmiks, and the rest of the team at Great Clarendon Street, who have made the production side of things such a pleasure.

Some of the happiest contacts have been as a result of meeting David Buchanan, of Scarborough City Art Gallery, Professor Gordon Bell and his wife, and Arthur Credland, especially during the run-up to the splendid exhibition on Henry Barlow Carter and Sons, at Hull Maritime Museum and Scarborough Art Gallery. Professor Bell has been a key figure in obtaining the blue plaque for Henry Vandyke Carter in Scarborough. Coulsons, the current owners of Carters old home, and the Scarborough Civic Society deserve all praise for making it happen. It was also Professor Bell who put me in touch with Sarah Potts, who has so kindly allowed me to reproduce the delightful photograph of HVC with his wife and little son, and to quote from family papers.

I have never met Svetlana Alpers, though I do wish I had. Her book The Art of Describing has been an inspiration to me in the writing of this book.

I particularly want to thank the kind and good librarians and archivists who have curated the materials from which it has been possible to unearth the hidden story of Grays Anatomy. So my thanks to:

The staff one and all at the Rare Books Reading Room at the British Library, the Manuscripts Library, the Maps Room, and the old India Office Library, and at Colindale, as well as the staff at the issue desk, and those we readers never get to see, in the stacks, and also the ever good-hearted security staff. Personal help beyond the call of duty has been given by Robin Alston, Edmund King, Des McTernan and Malcolm Marjoram. At the Wellcome Library, I should particularly like to thank Richard Palmer, who catalogued Henry Vandyke Carters Papers, Julia Sheppard, Richard Aspin, and other members of staff. At St Georges Hospital, Tooting, Susan Gove, Nallini Thevakarrunai, Marina Logan-Bruce, and Phil Adds. Dawn Kemp, Andrew Morgan and other staff at the Museum and Library at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. At the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Thalia Knight, Tina Craig, Beth Astridge, and Matthew Derrick; and in the Museum, Dr Simon Chaplin and Jane Hughes; Samantha Fairhall at St. Bartholomews Hospital Archives, Caroline Lam at Kings College London Archives, Katie Sambrook and Andrew Baster at Kings College London Special Collections; the Golden Archivist at Kings College School. Staff at The Lancet, Victoria Killick at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Frank James at the Royal Institution, Dee Cook, Archivist at the Society of Apothecaries. Librarians and archivists at the City of London Guildhall Library Archive and Map Room, Dr Williams Library, Family Records Centre, Hull Central Public Library & Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Linnaean Society, London Metropolitan Archives, The National Archives at Kew, The Natural History Museum, Royal Society of Medicine, St Bride Printing Library, Trinity College Cambridge Archives, University of London Senate House Library, University of Reading, The Wellcome Library, Westminster City Archives, the Archivist at Westminster School, staff at Windsor Castle, and at Yale University.

Thanks also to John Sheldrake, colleagues and friends at the Department of History at the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield, especially Professor Tim Hitchcock and Dr Sara Lloyd; The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, and colleagues and friends at the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge, especially Jim and Anne Secord, Tatjana Buklijas, Nick Hopwood, and Nick Whitfield.

I should also like to thank my sisters, and Susan Armstrong, Jane Wildgoose, Phil Adds, Anne Bayliss, Fred Castello, Gordon Cook, Helena Cronin, John Ford, John Foreman, Christian Forsdyke, Denis Gibbs, Chris Hamlin, John Heywood, Madeline Hyde at Elsevier, Monique Kornell, Brian Lake & staff at Jarndyce, Helen MacDonald, Maryon McDonald, Diana Manuel, Diane Middlebrook, Jean Pateman, John Pegington, the Quekett Club, Peter Razzell, Jessica Richardson, John Rickard, Mark Smalley, Tilli Tansey, Tim Whitton and Tony Williams. Mr K E Nicol kindly allowed me access to his private archive and to his stores of knowledge. If I have missed mentioning anyone, forgive me, and have compassion on the little grey cells.