Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-ca.1900 (inclusive).

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Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-ca.1900 (inclusive).

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Most of the papers are letters from Holmes to various colleagues, concerning mainly medical topics and people. Subjects include treatment by bleeding, a remedy for asthma, Holmes' discovery of bone cells, condolences upon the death of Henry J. Bigelow, Boston Medical Library Association and Tremont Medical School matters, the resignation of a Harvard Medical School dean, and Civil War injuries of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Other items include three poems by Holmes and Thomas Dwight's reminiscences, ca.1900, of Holmes as an anatomy professor.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway 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...

Tremont Medical School.

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Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

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Professor of anatomy at Harvard; editor of the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." From the description of Thomas Dwight letter to Houghton Mifflin & Co. [manuscript], 1884 January 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 664829000 Dwight (Harvard, M.D. 1867) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School from 1883 to 1911 and also taught at Bowdoin Medical School in Maine, 1874-1876. During study in Europe, he obtained experience using frozen...