ALS, 1892 October 12 : Boston, to unknown recipient.

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ALS, 1892 October 12 : Boston, to unknown recipient.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16659235

Holmes thanks this person for sending newspaper reproductions of "Magna Charter, the Declaration of Independence, etc." He mentions looking at this material under a microscope and describes it all, and also refers to a photograph of the Lord's prayer "written on glass." Written at the age of 83.

2 p. ; 18 x 11.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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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...