Letters sent to Francis Minot, 1847-1879.

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Letters sent to Francis Minot, 1847-1879.

Includes letters from Louis Agassiz, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Morris Hunt, Francis Parkman and others.

1 box (.3 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7794831

Houghton 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...

Minot, Francis, 1821-1899.

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Thayer was a trustee of Brown University from 1860 to 1894. From the description of Letter : Boston, Massachusetts, to Rev. Thatcher Thayer, Newport, Rhode Island, 1882 January 1. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122384395 Minot (Harvard, M.D. 1844) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1874 to 1891, and was physician, then consulting physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1859 to 1899. He studied ...

Minot, Francis, 1821-1899, recipient.

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Minot was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Boston area physician. From the description of Letters sent to Francis Minot, 1847-1879. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612221972 ...

Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...

Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879

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William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was a painter, portrait painter, and instructor from Boston, Mass. From the description of William Morris Hunt photographs and catalogs, ca. 1878-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122333561 William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) was a painter and instructor from Boston, Mass. Hunt drowned in the Isle of Shoals, N.H., possibly a suicide. From the description of William Morris Hunt letters and photographs, [ca. 1...