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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ hoʊmz /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
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Dr. Holmes developed the popular model of the stereoscope, a nineteenth century entertainment in which two identical pictures were viewed in 3-D. He was widely known and admired during his life. The noted Sherlockian Michael Harrison conjectured that the British author Arthur Conan Doyle drew one inspiration for his famous fictional detective Sherl...
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.""Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.""If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be so much the better for mankind–and all the worse for the fishes"Dowling, William C. Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. University Press of New England: Hanover, 2006. ISBN 9781584655794Gossett, Thomas F. Race: the History of an Idea in America.Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.Harrison, Michael, "A Study in Surmise," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine(February 1971): 59.Heymann, C. David. American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. ISBN 0396076084All links retrieved November 17, 2022. 1. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Project Gutenberg 2. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmesat Internet Archive 3. Representative Poetry Online: Oliver Wendell Holmes 4. Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Writer, doctor, and educator Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earned a BA at Harvard University in 1829 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1836.
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Oct 1, 2015 · English: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches) Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world Year: 1908 Authors: Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
