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| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| 1809–94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into the academic field, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838–40), dean of the Harvard medical school (1847–53), and Parkman professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard (1847–82). A stimulating and popular speaker, he published two important medical lectures, one in opposition to the practice of homeopathy and the other on the nature of fevers. —continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  h mz, hlmz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 5.
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- Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell, 28740 to 28792
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