John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings

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Biography

John Shaw Billings 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.

Books by John Shaw Billings
Specimen Fasciculus of a Catalogue of the National Medical Library Under the Direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army, at Washington, D. C.Specimen Fasciculus of a Catalogue of the National Medical Library Under the Direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army, at Washington, D. C.
A Report on Barracks and Hospitals with Descriptions of Military PostsA Report on Barracks and Hospitals with Descriptions of Military Posts
The Plans and purposes of the Johns Hopkins HospitalThe Plans and purposes of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Selected PapersSelected Papers
Suggestions to Hospital and Asylum VisitorsSuggestions to Hospital and Asylum Visitors
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Quotes by John Shaw Billings

"Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly."

John Shaw Billings