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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 .
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 9, 2018 · Introduction. 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.
- Neville W Goodman
- 2018
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 ...
John Shaw Billings: Civil War Surgeon, Medical Librarian, Founder of Index Medicus, and First Director of the New York Public Library
- Robert A. Kyle, David P. Steensma
- 2019
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May 23, 2016 · John Shaw Billings: “The Many Lives he Has Led” – The Indiana History Blog. See Part I for biographical information about John Shaw Billings, his experience as a Civil War surgeon, and his innovatory Surgeon-General library’s Index Catalogue.
May 18, 2018 · BILLINGS, JOHN SHAW. John Shaw Billings (1838 – 1913) was one of the towering figures of American medicine — indeed, of American civilization. As a young man, Billings was a surgeon, serving as medical inspector of the Army of the Potomac in the Civil War.
