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Biography

Garrison was born in Washington, D.C. and received his A.B. in 1890 from the Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. in 1893 from Georgetown University. The son of U.S. Treasury Comptroller John Rowzee Garrison and noted Washington, D.C. civic volunteer Catherine Jane Jennie Davis, he married Clara Augusta Brown in 1910 in Washington, D.C. and they eventually had three daughters. For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... Georgetown University is a Jesuit private university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Bishop John Carroll founded the school in 1789, though its roots extend back to 1634. ... The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government. ...

Garrison was a lecturer in the history of medicine and librarian of the Welch Medical Library. He came to Johns Hopkins University in 1930 after a long career in the Army Medical Library (now the National Library of Medicine). Garrison's other positions included president of the American Association for the History of Medicine; president of the Medical Library Association and director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine (for one year following the retirement of William H. Welch). He was also a much-respected editor and translator, as well as an accomplished classical pianist. The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The Library of the Surgeon Generals Office, later called the Army Medical Library, was the institutional medical literature repository of the U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1836 to 1956 when it was transformed into the National Library of Medicine. ... The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the U.S. federal government, is the worlds largest medical research library. ... The Medical Library Association was founded in 1898 as the Association of Medical Librarians and changed its name to Medical Library Association in 1907. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

Garrison was a close friend of noted literary critic H. L. Mencken, with whom he exchanged 400 letters, some of which have been published in Mencken's collected letters. Mencken was a pallbearer at Garrison's funeral. Garrison was also brother-in-law (they married sisters in a double wedding) to Henry Campbell Black, author of "Black's Law Dictionary." H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (September 12, 1880, Baltimore – January 29, 1956, Baltimore), was a journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of the American English. ... The founder of Blacks Law Dictionary, who first published the definitive legal dictionary in 1891. ... Blacks Law Dictionary, 7th edition Blacks Law Dictionary is the definitive law dictionary for the law of the United States. ...

Garrison died April 18, 1935 in Washington, D.C. and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington VA. is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Legacy

• Garrison was the subject of two biographies by Solomon Kagan, and the April, 1937 issue of The Bulletin of the History of Medicine was devoted to essays about Garrison's life and contributions.
• Garrison's book Introduction to the History of Medicine was the first comprehensive American publication on the history of medicine. For this book he compiled a bibliography of major works in the history of medicine. This listing, later amended by Leslie Morton, was eventually published as a separate piece. Garrison and Morton's A Medical Bibliography is still widely regarded as a standard in medical historical bibliography.
• Garrison's portrait hangs in the History of Medicine Division Reading Room of the United States National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD where most of his papers have been deposited.

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Bibliography

Books

• Garrison, Fielding H. (1915), John Shaw Billings: A Memoir, Putnam
• Garrison, Fielding H. (1922), Notes on the History of Military Medicine, Association of Military Surgeons
• Garrison, Fielding H. (1929), An Introduction to the History of Medicine, W.B. Saunders
• Garrison, Fielding H. (1933/1943), A Medical Bibliography (amended by Leslie Morton)

Monographs

• Garrison, F.H. (1919-20), "The Use of the Caduceus in the Insignia of the Army Medical Officer", Bull. Med. Lib. Assoc., IX, pp 13-16.
• Garrison, F.H. (1919), "The Babylonian Caduceus", Mil. Surg., XLIV, pp 633-36.
• Garrison, F.H. (1919), "A Letter to the Editor", Am. Med. Assoc. Jour., LXXII, pg 1483. (On the use of the caduceus in medicine.)

References

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External links

• The Fielding H. Garrison Collection