Oliver Wendell Holmes manuscript material : 1 item, 1861

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Oliver Wendell Holmes manuscript material : 1 item, 1861

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ยท To an unidentified recipient : 1 autograph note signed : 12 Dec 1861 : (MISC 4023) 56b : from Berlin; complying with an autograph request; begins, "It gives me pleasure to comply ..." Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7476538

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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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...