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John Shaw Billings. John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913) was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon [1] who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library.
Apr 8, 2024 · John Shaw Billings (born April 12, 1838, Switzerland county, Ind., U.S.—died March 11, 1913, New York, N.Y.) was an American surgeon and librarian whose organization of U.S. medical institutions played a central role in the modernization of hospital care and the maintenance of public health. Billings graduated from Miami University (Oxford ...
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About John Billings. The intellectual architect of The Johns Hopkins Hospital was John Shaw Billings (1838 – 1913), a battlefield surgeon in the Civil War, a creator of a monumental bibliography of the world's medical literature, a pioneer in public hygiene and sanitation, an expert in hospital construction and management, and the first ...
May 23, 2016 · John Shaw Billings’s hospital designs, which limited the spread of disease, and his education of the public about hygiene are more relevant than ever, considering the CDC’s recent struggle to combat the spread of Ebola and Enterovirus D68. Despite modern technology, educating the public about methods of contagion and effectively ...
John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 – March 11, 1913) was an American librarian, building designer, and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library.
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John Shaw Billings was born on April 12, 1838, in Allensville, Switzerland County, Indiana, which was near the frontier of the European-American settlement at the time. His father, James, was from New York and worked as a postmaster and operated a general store. His mother, Abby Shaw, was from Massachusetts and a direct Mayflower descendant, whom Billings remembered for her love of reading ...
Mar 9, 2018 · John Shaw Billings (1838–1913) – sanitarian, statistician, war surgeon, student, narrator, medical historian, administrator, librarian, teacher and architect – established the groundwork for creating Index Medicus, the first attempt to identify and code the medical literature. But he was a remarkable man beyond his bibliographic achievements.
