Letter and manuscript poem, 1849 Apr. 23 and 1857 Nov. 16.

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Letter and manuscript poem, 1849 Apr. 23 and 1857 Nov. 16.

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Consists of an autograph letter signed and an autograph manuscript signed. In the letter, Holmes responds to a Canadian who is interested in attending the Harvard Medical School. The poem is about the Spanish Armada.

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Frank Webster Jay Collection (University of Chicago. 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...

Harvard Medical School.

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