John Shaw Billings: creator of Index Medicus and medical visionary

Selected papers of John Shaw Billings

The General Infirmary at Leeds: Vol II-The Second Hundred Years, (1869-1965), by S. T. ANNING, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. xii, 188, illus., 42s. This volume appears, as was hoped, in good time for the Infirmary's bicentenary in 1967. During the period covered, the institution has been on its present site, though the latter has naturally been much enlarged, and the buil...

Dr. John Shaw Billings: the surgeon general's librarian a historical vignette.

Cited in Index Medicus

Inclusion of Biomatter in Medline (Index Medicus)

www.landesbioscience.com Biomatter e24610-1 It is with great pleasure that we announce the selection of Biomatter for indexing in Medline (Index Medicus). Medline, which is Part of the US National Library of Medicine, is freely available through PubMed and is the most prestigious and widely used database of biomedical literature. Considering Medline’s stringent requirements for indexing new jou...

Centenary of Index Medicus, 1879–1979

Murken attempts to explain to a wider audience how Beuys's imagery is taken from scientific and, in particular, medical themes. As if to emphasize this, the felt bookcover is designed to look like a first aid kit. Murken, despite his claim that the artist's life needs consideration, does not explain the significance felt has for Beuys (during the war Beuys was saved from certain death from expo...