Lectures on anatomy and physiology to students at the Harvard Medical School, 1850-1882 (inclusive).

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Lectures on anatomy and physiology to students at the Harvard Medical School, 1850-1882 (inclusive).

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Notes on lectures in the anatomy and physiology course taught by Oliver Wendell Holmes at Harvard Medical School. Printed announcements and other materials are laid or tipped in to several volumes.

9 volumes at 18 x 11 x 1 centimeters each.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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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...