Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885]

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Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124051582

A photograph of the author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes seated on a stone bench near his summer home in Beverly Farms, Mass. A portion of his house can be seen behind him.

1 photographic print on gray mount ; image 15 x 20 cm., mount 20 x 25 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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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...

Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918

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Photograph taken by the journalist William H. Rideing who occasionally visited Holmes at his house in Beverly Farms. From the description of Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 124051582 Writer, editor of Youth's companion. From the description of Letters, 1886 October 5 and November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54994659 From the description of Letters, 1898 May 16, n.d....