Ballad of the oysterman, [ca. 1890].

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Ballad of the oysterman, [ca. 1890].

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Contains a handwritten version of the text, "Ballad of the Oysterman," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, with accompanying pen and ink illustrations. Drawings depict the oysterman, his daughter, a house, and surrounding area. Actions correspond to what is being described in the verse.

1 v. (11 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.

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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...