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- catalog abstract "Includes several letters from Holmes; an 1890 letter from Annie Fields to Sarah Orne Jewett about Holmes; Holmes' essay on medical education, 1870; a Boston Society for Medical Improvement notice for an 1838 meeting and a verse about the Society. Most of the letters are to Jared Sparks concerning Harvard Medical School lectures and related matters; also includes an 1882 letter addressed to Holmes' first class (1885) in the Medical School. There are also copies of Holmes' letters and verse (originals are housed in other libraries). Additional accession includes an 1863 letter addressed to William Hunt regarding his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935.".
- catalog contributor b754984.
- 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 "Includes several letters from Holmes; an 1890 letter from Annie Fields to Sarah Orne Jewett about Holmes; Holmes' essay on medical education, 1870; a Boston Society for Medical Improvement notice for an 1838 meeting and a verse about the Society. Most of the letters are to Jared Sparks concerning Harvard Medical School lectures and related matters; also includes an 1882 letter addressed to Holmes' first class (1885) in the Medical School. There are also copies of Holmes' letters and verse (originals are housed in other libraries). Additional accession includes an 1863 letter addressed to William Hunt regarding his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935.".
- catalog extent "1 box.".
- catalog issued "1838".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Boston Society for Medical Improvement (Mass.)".
- catalog subject "Fields, Annie, 1834-1915.".
- catalog subject "Harvard Medical School.".
- catalog subject "Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.".
- catalog subject "Medical education.".
- catalog subject "Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.".
- catalog title "Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-1890 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Poems. ftamc".