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Early American Surgical Periodicals
Ira M. Rutkow, MD, MPH, DrPH
Arch Surg. 1998;133:1139.
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Writing in 1876, John Shaw Billings (1838-1919), a physician/surgeon then in charge of the library of the surgeon-general's office and soon to become founder of the Index Medicus (1879), noted that
since the year 1800, medical journalism has become the principal means of recording and communicating the observations and ideas of those engaged in the practice of medicine. . . .Through the medical journals have been given to the world nearly all the discoveries which the science and art of medicine owes to American physicians.
Billings was correct with his observation, in that the successful incorporation of scientific research and innovations into the clinical practice of medicine, along with critical discussions of pertinent socioeconomic and political movements, was dependent on a periodical or journal to disseminate such information expeditiously and effectively.
Although the earliest true American medical periodical, the Medical Respository, began publication . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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