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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 Oliver Wendell Holmes c. 1879 | |
| Born | Oliver Wendell Holmes August 29, 1809 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | October 7, 1894 (aged 85) Boston, Massachusetts |
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Birthplace of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Cambridge
Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1841
USS Constitution under sail in 1997
Daguerreotype showing Holmes's children, 1854: Edward Jackson Holmes, Amelia Jackson Holmes and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
Daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. by Josiah Johnson Hawes. Image courtesy of the Harvard University Library.
Reproduction of a Holmes-type stereoscope
Holmes lived on Beacon Street, Boston, 1871–1894
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- The name of Sherlock Holmes - Dr. Holmes
- 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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