2. 一切必需要從 1837 年開始 John Shaw Billings John Shaw Billings, a wounded Civil War soldier, was assigned as an assistant to the Surgeon General’s office as a result of his war injuries. One of his duties was to oversee the Surgeon General’s Library , which had started in 1837 . He had an affinity for this work and the Library soon became his primary job. To keep up with the Library as it grew, he began indexing its 50,000 journals , taking them home in crates at night to work on. He would assign a few subject headings to each journal and his assistants would then put that information onto index cards. Soon, the index cards became lists…and the lists became large enough to print. Out of this grew the printed index: Index Medicus .
