DR. JOHN BILLINGS

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.

A Tribute to Dr. Diane Billings.

I mid-August, the 2015 selection of the American Academy of Nursing’s Living Legends was announced. Living Legend (or “LLs,” as some like to call themselves) is probably the highest distinction a nurse can attain. Being inducted into the American Academy of Nursing is a challenge in itself. One has to have made consistent and distinctive contributions to the profession to become a Fellow. There...

Germs, Dr. Billings, and the theory of focal infection.

Our understanding of infectious diseases continues to expand rapidly, and has led to the realization that microorganisms are responsible for, or at least contribute to, numerous diseases that were never before associated with infectious etiologies. However, a review of medical history reminds us that this is not so novel an idea. Not long after the widespread acceptance of bacteriology and the ...

Dr. John Lindesay Pearce