F. A. Davis Company

He played a key role in developing St. Petersburg, Florida, and built the city’s first electrical power plant.

[7] He named Dr. Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous, the first person to hold a chair in endocrinology and the first president of The Endocrine Society,[8] as editor that same year.

Alonzo Davis focused on his father’s business enterprises in Florida until they fell victim to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

Irene Davis then assumed control of the publishing company and turned it into the strong enterprise that exists today.

To diversify the company’s list of publications, Davis also hired Clarence Wilbur Taber (1870–1967) as a full-time textbook editor in 1931.

Davis parleyed its historic strength in publishing nursing textbooks into a focus on all of the allied health disciplines.

Its flagship publications, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses, as well as its online and mobile references, are trusted resources for healthcare professionals around the globe.

Dr. George Morris Piersol, Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (1954–1957) and president of the American College of Physicians, took over as the encyclopedia's editor after Dr. Sajous’s death.

"It covers every branch of medical knowledge and brings the literature of each up to recent times in such a manner that it can be referred to easily and with satisfaction.” That volume alone contained 1,043 pages, was illustrated with chromolithographs, engravings, and maps, and cost five dollars.