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Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.... Read more
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
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