A portrait of Fielding H Garrison (1870-1935): America's pioneering medical historian.
Fielding Hudson Garrison once remarked that because his birthday fell on 5 November, Guy Fawkes Day, he was "fated to suffer from in-ward hell-fire and brimstone all [his] life". Though said in jest, Garrison was a vulnerable, melancholic and self-confessed lonely man who found solace in the papers, periodicals and books of the Army Medical Library-today's National Library of Medicine. Over the course of approximately 25 years, and often while working in his spare time, Garrison went from a clerk in the world's largest medical library to America's pioneering and, arguably, most prolific medical historian, past or present.
US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Division of Metabolic and Endocrine Drug Products, HFD-510, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, USA. colmane@cder.fda.gov
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