Index Medicus
medical publication
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Billings
- In John Shaw Billings
…in his founding of the Index Medicus (1879), a monthly guide to current medical literature, and publication of the first edition of the Index Catalogue, 16 vol. (1880–95). The first of their kind, both indexes long remained predominant medical references, and the Index Medicus is still regarded as one of…
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phototypesetting
- In printing: Second generation of phototypesetters: functional
…composed with a Lumizip, the Index Medicus (1964), was as much of a landmark in the history of phototypesetting as the Forty-two-Line Bible had been in printing. Its more than 600 pages were completed in 12 hours. To produce the same work on a typecasting machine would have taken almost…
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