摘要：IN THE thirty years between 1865 and 1895, when the old Surgeon General's Library was under the direction of Dr. John Shaw Billings, it grew from a small collection of books and pamphlets in the Surgeon General's office to become the greatest medical library of the United States, if not of the world. Its collections were made available to doctors and others who were interested through the Index-Catalogue, one of the great bibliographies of all time, and the Index Medicus.
