Autograph letter signed Oliver Wendell Holmes to: Mrs. Palmer.
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp6xrj (person)
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...
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c24tgn (person)
Student at University of Michigan, later president of Wellesley College. From the description of Alice Freeman Palmer correspondence, 1874-1900. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419539 ...
