William Norvell Ward papers [manuscript] 1829 (1840-59) 1906.
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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...
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Ward, William Norvell, 1817-1881
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Rev. William Norvell Ward, of Bladensfield, Lyells, Richmond County, Va., Rector of St. Margarets, and Lunenburg and Cople parishes, and principal of Tappahannock Seminary for Young Ladies and Bladensfield Female Seminary. From the description of William Norvell Ward papers [manuscript] 1829 (1840-59) 1906. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647950836 ...
Episcopal Church
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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...
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Bladensfield Female Semiary.
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Carter, Robert Wormeley, 1797-1861.
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