Cards : manuscript, 1881.

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Cards : manuscript, 1881.

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Two cards with quotes from Holmes' poems, The last leaf and The last reader. Each card has a silhouette of a child similar to those drawn by Helen Maria Hinds for Edward Hale's (ed.) Songs and silhouettes.

2 items : ill. ; 9 x 11 cm.

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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...