Oliver Wendell Holmes ALS: 1877 Oct. 24.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes ALS: 1877 Oct. 24.

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Letter to Osgood in Boston describing an interview with a woman publisher who "was a great bore to me," and who had obtained permission to include one of his poems in a compilation.

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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...