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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; 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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet, physician, and essayist, father of the judge; Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, son of the essayist; Oliver Wendell Holmes (archivist) (1902–1981), American archivist and historian
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. [A] Holmes is one of the most widely cited and influential Supreme Court justices in American history, noted for his long tenure on the Court and for his pithy opinions—particularly those on civil liberties and American ...
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form.
Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions is a work by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., based upon two lectures he gave in 1842, Medical Delusions and Homœopathy. [1] [2] The work criticizes homeopathy, which he considered to be akin to "astrology, palmistry and other methods of getting a living out of the weakness and credulity of mankind and womankind". [3]
Holmes developed an interest in puerperal fever by accident. In 1836 Holmes graduated from Harvard Medical School. He was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Dartmouth College from 1838 to 1840. In 1840 Holmes went back to Boston, took up general practice, and joined the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. At one of the meetings of the ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married Amelia Lee Jackson Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), jurist Jonathan Jackson (1743–1810), merchant and Continental Congress delegate from Massachusetts , married Sarah Barnard (d. 1770), remarried to Hannah Tracy (d. 1797)
On the third day, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., the dean of Harvard Medical College, who held a post endowed by Parkman, took the stand. He testified his belief that the body had been dismembered by someone with a knowledge of dissection and anatomy, that a wound between the ribs would not necessarily cause a large amount of blood loss, and that ...