Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. He was a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. He also wrote old ironsides, a famous poem.
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| Born | Oliver Wendell Holmes August 29, 1809 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | October 7, 1894 (aged 85) Boston, Massachusetts |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Media
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Birthplace of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Cambridge
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Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1841
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USS Constitution under sail in 1997
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Daguerreotype showing Holmes's children, 1854: Edward Jackson Holmes, Amelia Jackson Holmes and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Charles D. Meigs, an opponent of Holmes's theory regarding the contagious nature of puerperal fever, wrote that doctors are gentlemen, and "gentlemen's hands are clean".
Holmesdale, home in Pittsfield
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Daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. by Josiah Johnson Hawes. Image courtesy of the Harvard University Library.
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Reproduction of a Holmes-type stereoscope
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Holmes lived on Beacon Street, Boston, 1871–1894
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- The name of Sherlock Holmes - Dr. Holmes Archived 2019-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- 11th Edition Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) Archived 2010-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- The Transcendentalist Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Archived 2010-12-01 at the Wayback Machine a site maintained by Jone Johnson Lewis
- "The Annotated Autocrat" Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine a complete set of annotations to Holmes's Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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