Along with this there has been throughout this country a marked
movement in favor of medical libraries. It is to the credit of the
government of the United States that the whole world is debtor to us,
not only for the foremost medical library in the world, that of the
surgeon-general of the army in Washington, but also for the magnificent
index-catalogue, not only of the books, but all the journal articles
in every language in the world. No better investment of money was ever
made than the establishment of this library, and its allied museum, and
the publication of the index-catalogue.