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Get to know the life and achievements of John Shaw Billings, a pioneering medical librarian and public health advocate. This biographical memoir covers his early life and education, his medical career, and his work on projects such as the Index Medicus and the Surgeon General's library. An essential resource for anyone interested in the history of medicine and public health in America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF DR. JOHN SHAW BILLINGS BY FlBLDING H. GARRISON, M. D. John Shaw B1ll1ngs, perhaps the most versatile American physician of his time, achieved excellence and gained distinction in no less than six different fields--in military and public hygiene, in hospital construction and sanitary engineering, in vital and medical statistics, in medical bibliography and history, in the advancement of medical education and the condition of medicine in the United States, and as a civil administrator of unique abilities. Shortly after receiving his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio (1860), Dr. Billings prepared to enter upon surgical practice in Cincinnati, where his prospects were excellent, but the outbreak of the Civil War turned his mind to the larger service of his country, and, in September, 1861, he passed his examination before the examining board for admission to the Medical Corps of the United States Army and was duly commissioned First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon on April 16, 1862. As an army surgeon his services were continuous and included some twenty-one months' work in hospital and a full year of roughing it in the field. He long afterwards described this experience as his postgraduate course in surgery, "with its service in camps and hospitals, with battlefields for the great clinics--a long, weary course." During the Civil War his reputation for courage and ability was of the best, and the end of the great struggle found him one of the medical inspectors of the Army of the Potomac, with a brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel "for faithful and meritorious services" (1865). Being in charge of Cliffburne Hospital, near Georgetown, July 3, 1862, assisted by fifteen Sisters of Charity, he took care of many...
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Programme of the celebrations and short biography of J.S. Billings.