Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters
- ISBN-10
- 0881353817
- ISBN-13
- 9780881353815
- Series
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 274
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Science History Publications
- Authors
- Charles S. Bryan, Scott H. Podolsky
Description
"The greatest Brahmin" : overview of a life / Charles S. Bryan -- Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1842 lectures on "Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions" : a retrospective look / John S. Haller Jr. -- A private pestilence : Holmes and puerperal ...
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