To Oliver Wendell Holmes : autograph mauscript of the poem signed, [1884 Aug.].

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To Oliver Wendell Holmes : autograph mauscript of the poem signed, [1884 Aug.].

Paying tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 75th birthday.

1 item (1 p.) ; 23.1 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...

De Kay, Charles, 1848-1935

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American poet. From the description of To Oliver Wendell Holmes : autograph mauscript of the poem signed, [1884 Aug.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644216626 Author, art critic; founder of the Fencers Club of New York, the National Arts Club of New York, and as Consul General to Berlin, Der Berliner Fecht Club. From the description of Charles Augustus de Kay letters to editors [manuscript], 1887-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 302416020 ...