Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. facts for kids
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes c. 1879
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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. (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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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".
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Holmes in 1853
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Holmes with Members of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement in 1853, seated second from left
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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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Holmes in his study during his later life
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Grave of Holmes and his wife at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1858 facsimile of Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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Engraving of Holmes from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, published by Houghton, Mifflin in 1895
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See also
In Spanish: Oliver Wendell Holmes (escritor) para niños
