Fielding Hudson Garrison

Fielding H Garrison
Fielding H Garrison
	Army Medical Library, helped to develop the Index Medicus from 1903 to 1927 which paved the way for MEDLINE

William Henry Welch and Henry E. Sigerist

Colonel Fielding Hudson Garrison,

bibliographer, and librarian of medicine. Garrison's An Introduction to the History of Medicine

Biography

Garrison was born in

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. (Garrison was brother-in-law — they married sisters in a double wedding — to Henry Campbell Black, author of "Black's Law Dictionary

Garrison joined the staff of the

From 1930, Garrison was lecturer in the history of medicine and librarian of the Welch Medical Library of the Johns Hopkins University. He was also a much-respected editor and translator, as well as an accomplished classical pianist.

Garrison died April 18, 1935, in Washington, D.C., and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

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 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
Bethesda, MD where most of his papers have been deposited.^[1]

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