The correspondence and role of Claudius Henry Mastin and John Shaw Billings in establishing the new Library of the Surgeon General's Office and Armed Forces Medical Museum building / William McDowell Mastin, 1980.

Library of the Surgeon General's Office (U.S.)

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Walter Drew McCaw, 1863-1939, was a career Army medical officer. After training at the Medical School of Virginia and Columbia University Medical School, he joined the Army Medical Department in 1884. He served in various posts in the west and south, in Cuba during the Spanish American war, and in the Philippines afterward. He was appointed director of the Library on October 3, 1903. McCaw left his position in 1913 to resume active duty in the Philippines. From the description of Lib...

Mastin, Claudius H. (Claudius Henry), 1826-1898

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Claudius Henry Mastin received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1849 and practiced medicine in Mobile, Alabama. During the Civil War he became medical director of the army of the Mississippi. He invented several surgical instruments and contributed largely to medical journals, especially on genito-urinary surgery. He was the founder of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, and one of the organizers of the American Surgical Association. From the de...

Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913

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U. S. Army surgeon and founder of the Army Medical Library. From the description of John Shaw Billings letters, 1891, Apr. 13 and May 13, New York City, to W.R. Benjamin. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992422 1860. Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, with A.B., M.A. From the description of General correspondence June 1862-Oct. 1901 [microform]. (Alma Public Library). WorldCat record id: 7883610 The Adjutant General of the Army had re...

Mastin, William McDowell.

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Army Medical Museum (U.S.)

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