Memorial Meeting in Honor of the Late Dr. John Shaw Billings

Memorial Meeting in Honor of the Late Dr. John Shaw Billings
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2016-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781334114076

Excerpt from Memorial Meeting in Honor of the Late Dr. John Shaw Billings: April 25, 1913 The meeting was called to order at 4 o'clock in the Stuart gallery of the central building by John L. Cadwalader, president of the Board of Trustees. With him on the platform sat the following persons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John Shaw Billings Centennial

John Shaw Billings Centennial
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1965
Genre: Anniversaries
ISBN:

Programme of the celebrations and short biography of J.S. Billings.

John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age

John Shaw Billings: Science and Medicine in the Gilded Age
Author: James H. Cassedy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 166980190X

Much has been written about John Shaw Billings=s (1838-1913) role in the founding and development of two great American libraries, the Army Medical Library and the New York Public Library, to the neglect of other aspects of his career. Billings=s role as a physician was many-faceted. Beginning his medical career as an Army surgeon during the Civil War, during the next 30 years he added to his medical skills those of scientist, administrator, and planner, builder, and organizer of several important medical and public health activities and institutions. This book explores Billings as a leader of the Amedical revolution@ and the public health movement of the late 19th century. It emphasizes the part he played as a link between the growing federal government=s presence in health policy and scientific activity and the world of private medicine and local public health.