Centennial of the Army Medical Library : address of Humphry Davy Rolleston 1936-1944
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Army Medical Library (U.S.)
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The Army Medical Library began in 1836 when Surgeon General of the Army Joseph Lovell first established a collection of medical literature for official use. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian, greatly increased collections and initiated the Index Catalogue. By 1936 the library held more than a million items and was considered one of the premier medical libraries in the world. From the guide to the Materials relating to the one hundredth anniversary of the Army Medical Library, 1...
Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944
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British physician, Oxford professor, historian of medicine. From the description of Papers, 1882-1943. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35328759 Rolleston was a distinguished British physician who served as a consulting physician to the Royal Navy during World War I and was personal physician to George V. He was also an honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a consultant to the Army Medical Library. From the description of Centennial of the...
Jones, Harold Wellington, 1877-1958
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Harold Wellington Jones (1877-1958) was born in Cambridge, Mass. He attended M.I.T. and received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1901. He graduated from Army Medical School in 1906. He served with Pershing in Mexico (1914-16), where he organized the army's first motor ambulance company. During World War I Jones helped develop motor ambulances and commanded the Beau Desert base hospital in France. A surgeon, Jones served at Staten Island, Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines, Fort Leavenworth and ...
