Poems Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Revised edition. Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, board corners bumped and rubbed, front hinge starting, pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1850 Small Hard Cover. x, 286 pp. Blue boards with gilt decor, all edges gilt. Oliver Wendell Holmes (born Aug. 29, 1809, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.?died Oct. 7, 1894, Cambridge) was an American physician, poet, and humorist notable for his medical research and teaching, and as the author of the ?Breakfast-Table? series of essays. Holmes studied law at Harvard University before deciding on a medical career; and, following studies at Harvard and in Paris, he received his degree from Harvard in 1836. He practiced medicine for 10 years, taught anatomy for two years at Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.), and in 1847 became professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard. He was later made dean of the Harvard Medical School, a post he held until 1882. His most important medical contribution was that of calling attention to the contagiousness of puerperal fever (1843). - Britannica