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- catalog abstract "Most of the papers are letters from Holmes to various colleagues, concerning mainly medical topics and people. Subjects include treatment by bleeding, a remedy for asthma, Holmes' discovery of bone cells, condolences upon the death of Henry J. Bigelow, Boston Medical Library Association and Tremont Medical School matters, the resignation of a Harvard Medical School dean, and Civil War injuries of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Other items include three poems by Holmes and Thomas Dwight's reminiscences, ca.1900, of Holmes as an anatomy professor.".
- catalog contributor b754972.
- catalog date "1838".
- catalog description "Card catalog.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Most of the papers are letters from Holmes to various colleagues, concerning mainly medical topics and people. Subjects include treatment by bleeding, a remedy for asthma, Holmes' discovery of bone cells, condolences upon the death of Henry J. Bigelow, Boston Medical Library Association and Tremont Medical School matters, the resignation of a Harvard Medical School dean, and Civil War injuries of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Other items include three poems by Holmes and Thomas Dwight's reminiscences, ca.1900, of Holmes as an anatomy professor.".
- catalog description "Provenance: Boston Medical Library.".
- catalog extent "3 boxes.".
- catalog issued "1838".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog provenance "Provenance: Boston Medical Library.".
- catalog subject "American poetry 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Anatomy Study and teaching.".
- catalog subject "Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911.".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.".
- catalog subject "Tremont Medical School.".
- catalog title "Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-ca.1900 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Poems. ftamc".