ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author, Arthur Newsholme, talks about William Henry Welch, from his experiences in public health. The author experience of American life is closely related to Dr. Welch, the Director of the School of Hygiene. Welch moulded medical teaching in his adopted Johns Hopkins University and indirectly throughout America. His advice was in frequent demand on the epidemiological and sanitary work of the Rockefeller and Milbank Foundations. Welch's help to workers in every branch of Medicine and Hygiene was given freely and to an extent which is almost unbelievable. one of Welch's latest tasks in the two years prior to its opening was that of collecting in Europe all books that could worthily find a home in this great library. To this library the author's friend Colonel F. H. Garrison, the author of the standard History of Medicine, was worthily appointed librarian, but he too has passed on.
