Letters to Miss Willis. Boston, 1889-1890 1889, 1889

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Letters to Miss Willis. Boston, 1889-1890 1889, 1889

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4641638252

Letter to Miss Willis. Accompanied by one photograph of Holmes apparently torn from a book.

1 sheet, 1 photograph

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...