Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1843-1888 (inclusive).

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Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1843-1888 (inclusive).

Contains original outgoing letters of Holmes to various individuals, some identified. Subjects pertain to poetry, family matters, social activities, letters of recommendation, etc. Other papers include lectures on anatomy for Harvard Medical School courses; various lectures on medical topics by others; and last stanza of poem "The Chambered Nautilus" by Holmes.

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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...

Harvard Medical School.

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