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Aug 28, 2020 · In the mid-19th century, doctors in elite teaching hospitals would unknowingly spread deadly bacteria to expectant mothers. Here's how Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. helped change that.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the nineteenth century. Holmes was a member of the Fireside Poets, a group of American poets that were among the first to rival their British counterparts.
Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil. That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew,
May 10, 2009 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1809 - 1894. by Jacques Reich (1852 -1923) 1899, Etching. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Oswald D. Reich. S/NPG.67.95. Written and narrated by Cullen Murphy. Cullen Murphy is The Atlantic ’s editor at large. He first joined the magazine as managing editor in 1985.
The Living Temple. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built his blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker’s glory seen: Look in upon thy wondrous frame,— Eternal wisdom still the same!
Feb 10, 2012 · Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was a physician, dean of the Harvard Medical School, one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century, father of a future United States Supreme Court Justice, inventor and — unknown to many — an anatomist. His friends included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Louis Pasteur.
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