BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
1838 – 1913
19 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source uncredited · Library journal, Volume 21 1896 (New York Public Library Archives) · Public domain
1870 CE
#10448
Report on barracks and hospitals, with descriptions of military posts.
Describes military posts in all regions of the U.S., including the Western territories, with details of their hospitals, barracks, etc. In a 1928 talk at Mayo Clinic historian Fielding Garrison wrote about this work, …
1873 CE
#11212
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army. 3 vols.
The first formal published catalogue of the ancestor of the US National Library of Medicine, prepared under the supervision of John Shaw Billings. Vols. 1-2 represented an author catalogue A-Z. Vol. 3: Supplement: Ano…
1875 CE
#10652
Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.
Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …
1876 CE
#6586
A century of American medicine 1776-1876
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876 CE
#13160
International Exhibition of 1876. Medical Department, U.S. Army. Photographs illustrating rare books in the National Medical Library. Philadelphia, 1876. 2 vols.
These two volumes include a series of original photographs of primarily the title pages of rare medical books in the National Medical Library pasted onto specially printed sheets with manuscript entries indicating the…
1876 CE
#11261
Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army at Washington, D. C.
This analystical subject-author catalogue was a 96-page preview of what became known four years later as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of Surgeon General's Office. Reflecting Billings' long term view of the insti…
1879 CE–1899 CE
#6762
Index Medicus. A monthly classified record of the current medical literature of the world. Vols. 1-21.
"Functionally, however, the greatest difference between the two publications [Index Medicus and the Index-Catalogue] was that the Index-Catalogue was a government publication and Index Medicus was not. For its entire …
1880 CE–1961 CE
#6763
Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.
In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to …
1881 CE
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1888 CE
#9754
Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.
An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1889 CE
#1705
On vital and medical statistics.
1890 CE
#1627
Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time&r…
1890 CE
#13587
Rare medical books. Remarks made by Dr. John S. Billings at the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society, December 16th, 1889.
This three page paper is primarily a detailed bibliographical listing of a selection of rare books that Billings brought from the Army Medical Library for exhibition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This was probably the fi…
1894 CE
#11267
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
1895 CE
#5799
The history and literature of surgery. IN: System of surgery, edited by Frederic S. Dennis, assisted by John S. Billings. 1, 17-144.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903 CE
#11627
Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1915 CE
#9755
John Shaw Billings: A memoir.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1965 CE
#11263
Selected papers of John Shaw Billings. Edited by Frank Rogers.
Reprints 24 articles by Billings in addition to a biographical sketch and his complete bibliography.
1994 CE
#11262