Henry Vandyke Carter

Henry Vandyke Carter was an English anatomist, surgeon and anatomical artist, born in Hull on 22 May 1831 and best known for drawing the woodcut illustrations of Gray's Anatomy. He studied medicine in London, worked as a student and illustrator at the Royal College of Surgeons, and collaborated with the anatomist Henry Gray on the textbook, whose first edition appeared in 1858, the year Carter left for India. He then served in the Indian Medical Service at Bombay for thirty years, teaching anatomy at Grant Medical College and later holding its principal's post. In India he studied leprosy, relapsing fever and other endemic diseases, and he published reports on leprosy. He retired to Scarborough and died there on 4 May 1897.