Annals of medical history . Volume i Summer 1917 Number 2 EULOGY OF DR. JOHN SHAW BILLINGS READ BY DR. ABRAHAM JACOBI AT THE MEMORIAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORKACADEMY OF MEDICINE, 1913. HE death of Dr. JohnShaw Billings hasrobbed America ofone of its greatestmen. This New YorkAcademy of Medi-cine, the representa-tive and headquar-ters of medicalendeavor in New York, is anxious and eag-er to honor itself by extolling a man whowas so prominent in many fields of knowl-edge, research, and activities that each ofthem would have secured his immortalityboth in medical and general history. Indeedit is m
Annals of medical history . Volume i Summer 1917 Number 2 EULOGY OF DR. JOHN SHAW BILLINGS READ BY DR. ABRAHAM JACOBI AT THE MEMORIAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORKACADEMY OF MEDICINE, 1913. HE death of Dr. JohnShaw Billings hasrobbed America ofone of its greatestmen. This New YorkAcademy of Medi-cine, the representa-tive and headquar-ters of medicalendeavor in New York, is anxious and eag-er to honor itself by extolling a man whowas so prominent in many fields of knowl-edge, research, and activities that each ofthem would have secured his immortalityboth in medical and general history. Indeedit is mostly to mere specialistic learning-and labor that many of our famous menowe their deserved renown. Dr. Billings began his life as a demon-strator of anatomy in a western college. Inthe Civil War he served the country as asurgeon, and finally as a medical inspectorof the Army of the Potomac. He then setout to develop the scanty library of theSurgeon Generals Office established by Wm. A. Hammond. A few years of hardwork on the part of Billings and the liber-ality of Congress made the library grow sothat in 1876 the plan of publishing the In-dex Catalogue was matured and in 1880
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