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By Carleton B. Chapman. Canton, Mass., Watson, 1994. $28.95. ISBN 0-88135-187-3

The 19th-century American physician John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) had a remarkable and wide-ranging career. It included work in medical bibliography, hospital administration, medical education, and public health. His accomplishments in these areas demonstrate that he was a key figure in U.S. medicine. For example, he planned and supervised the expansion of the library of the Surgeon General's Office into the country's largest medical library, a collection that evolved into the National Library of Medicine. Billings also developed systems to locate medical literature, such as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office and the Index Medicus. Yet the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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