id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_bytukqhpbnc33bunld2zzezm2e M M Cummings BOOKS, COMPUTERS AND MEDICINE (CONTRIBUTIONS OF A FRIEND OF SIR WILLIAM OSLER) 1966.0 8 .pdf application/pdf 4376 328 67 his friend, Dr. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian of the National Library of The scholarly and perceptive Dr. Osler had begun to exchange books and manuscripts with the National Medical Library as far back as 1883 when he was at McGill. Osler's high regard for Billings is clearly evident in the form of two letters inviting The 'ghost' of Billings pervades the atmosphere of the National Library of Medicine role which Billings played in the development of Johns Hopkins as follows: with the University,' as Dr. Billings expressed it, in the work of medical education and discovery, Thus Billings, the librarian, medical bibliographer, and hospital designer may also Osler's friend, John Shaw Billings, cast shadows 5. The Osler-Billings letters cited are from the collections of the National Library of Medicine or the New York Public Library. [i.e. National Library of Medicine] with its publications.. ./cache/work_bytukqhpbnc33bunld2zzezm2e.pdf ./txt/work_bytukqhpbnc33bunld2zzezm2e.txt