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F.A. Davis Company (F.A. Davis or Davis) is a publishing firm headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by F. A. Davis (1850–1917). Davis publishes mostly textbooks and reference books for the medical, nursing, and health-related professions fields. ==History== Frank Allston Davis (1850–1917) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who founded the F.A. Davis Company, a medical publishing company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1879. Davis grew up in Vermont and began his working life as a teacher. During the summer of 1870, he traveled to Asbury Park, New Jersey and found a job selling lawn-mowers. His success convinced him that sales was his vocation, and he moved to Philadelphia and became an agent for several publishing houses. In 1879, while working as an agent for William Wood and Company, a publisher itself and a book distributor for British publishers, Davis launched his company with a manuscript written by Dr. John V. Shoemaker, Dean of the Medico-Chirurgical College, which was part of the University of Pennsylvania. In the 1880s and 1890s, F.A Davis focused his business activities on the gulf coast of Florida. He was a key figure in the development of St. Petersburg, and built the city’s first electrical power plant. Davis also founded the nearby town of Pinellas Park. Davis turned his attention to medical publishing after the F.A. Davis Company was reincorporated in 1901. He named Dr. Charles Euchariste de Medicis Sajous, the first person to hold a chair in endocrinology and the first president of the Endocrine Society, as editor that same year. Dr. Sajous published medically important and commercially successful works during his tenure as editor, including the Analytic Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, which was called “an excellent work” by JAMA in 1901. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「F. A. Davis Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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