JOHNS HOPKINS.


BILLINGS, JOHN SHAW, ET AL. Hospital Plans: Five Essays Relating to the Construction, Organization & Management of Hospitals, Contributed by Their Authors for the Use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore. New York: William Wood & Co., 1875. 8vo (248 x 157 mm). Publisher's original cloth. Some scuffing and soiling to cloth, foxing to edges of leaves, pencil notations throughout. WITH: BRIEGER, GERT H. "The Original Plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Their Historical Significance." [Offprint from:] Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol 39, no 6. [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press], 1965. 8vo (253 x 175 mm). Original blue wrappers. INSCRIBED BY BRIEGER ("For Bruce Fye with best wishes, Gert").RARE VOLUME OF ESSAYS ON HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION, including one by John Shaw Billings, who was chosen by the hospital's trustees to plan its construction. Brieger writes: "These five original plans are far from dry-as-dust construction plans. They harbor some of the thoughts of medical men when the germ theory was still new, when Lister's principles had not yet won widespread acceptance, but when many of the evils of hospital management and construction were well recognized ... The five plans were published in 1875 because the Trustees believed they would benefit the medical profession, and they thought such a valuable body of information should not be with-held from the public ... Many of the suggestions made by the five planners were incorporated into the final plans of the actual hospital when it was built." Garrison-Morton 10652.