TY  - JOUR
T1  - Leading the way: A history of johns hopkins medicine
AU  - Porter D
Y1  - 2012/10/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.308.13.1379
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1379
EP  - 1380
VL  - 308
IS  - 13
N2  - 
Grauer provides the reason why visionary innovation is embedded in the culture of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Put simply, this institution was founded by a brilliantly creative imagination. Johns Hopkins was the second of 11 children born to Maryland Quaker tobacco plantation owners Samuel and Hannah Janney Hopkins. Hopkins made his fortune initially by accepting moonshine as payment for groceries from Maryland farmers and then rebottling and selling it, making what he claimed was $200 000 in his first year of business. More than a decade before he died in 1878, Hopkins petitioned the Maryland legislature to establish 2 corporations, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and The Johns Hopkins University. In his will, Hopkins left virtually his entire fortune of $7 million—which, Grauer suggests, is estimated to be worth $11 billion in contemporary times—for the funding of these 2 corporations.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.308.13.1379
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.13.1379
ER  -