National Library of Medicine. Digital Collections

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National Library of Medicine. Digital Collections
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/
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Digital Collections provides access to the National Library of Medicine's distinctive digital content in the areas of biomedicine, health care and the history of medicine. Our unique digital collections are freely available for download worldwide and in the public domain unless otherwise indicated.
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Digital Collections fornisce l'accesso ai contenuti digitali distintivi della Biblioteca Nazionale di Medicina nei settori della biomedicina, dell'assistenza sanitaria e della storia della medicina. Le nostre collezioni digitali uniche sono liberamente disponibili per il download in tutto il mondo e nel pubblico dominio se non diversamente indicato.
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The digital collections are freely available for download worldwide and in the public domain unless otherwise indicated

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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors and subjects (1880-1932) Titolo dell'opera - rivista o libro - di cui è parte Testo
JOHN SHAW BILLINGS CENTENNIAL

 In this portrait, painted by Cecilia Beaux in 1895, Dr.
 Billings wears  the gown of a  Doctor  of  Civil  Law of
 Oxford.  The painting hangs in the Reading Room  of the
National Library of Medicine.

The gravitation of John Billings to books was as inevitable and as certain as  any  law  of nature.   It  was  equally certain  that,  given access to books, he would know their contents, use them, and  introduce others  to  their  solace  and  help.  Detailed to  the  Surgeon General's Office and  finding no library, he made one. That he and no one else was founder of the national medical library needs  no discussion  after reading the following letter, printed in The Medical Record.
                                         Washington, February 3, 1880Photograph of oil painting of John Shaw Billings (1895) È parte di Immagine fissa