Oliver Wendell Holmes


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01-01-1996



Oliver Wendell Holmes

The eminent American writer, anatomist and the first dean of Harvard Medical School, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. wears his professorial robes. Holmes made the discovery in the 1840s that puerpal fever was contagious and, a true Renaissance man, was also a published novelist; the most famous of his stories was the pre-Freudian Elsie Venner.
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The eminent American writer, anatomist and the first dean of Harvard Medical School, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. wears his ...

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