Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 1894) spent parts of the nineteenth century as America s best-known physician and best-selling author. Sir William Osler praised him as the most successful combination which the world has ever seen, of the physician and man of letters. Henry James, Sr., called him intellectually the most alive man I ever knew. Today, he is remembered as a physician for his investigation of the contagiousness of puerperal fever (well before the advent of the germ theory), for his advocacy for therapeutic skepticism and rationalism, and for coining such terms as anesthesia. He is celebrated as a literary and cultural figure for such poems as Old Ironsides (considered responsible for saving the U.S.S. Constitution), for his ground-breaking contributions to The Atlantic Monthly (which he named), and for terming Boston the Hub of the solar system and describing its Brahmin caste. The present volume, celebrating the bicentennial of Holmes s birth, offers a fresh look at Holmes in both of his major (and often intermeshing) identities.

Biographies & Memoirs

Charles S. Bryan

EDITORS

Scott Harris Podolsky

Arts & Literature

Science History Publications/USA

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 1894) spent parts of the nineteenth century as America s best-known physician and best-selling author. Sir William Osler praised him as the most successful combination which the world has ever seen, of the physician and man of letters. Henry James, Sr., called him intellectually the most alive man I ever knew. Today, he is remembered as a physician for his investigation of the contagiousness of puerperal fever (well before the advent of the germ theory), for his advocacy for therapeutic skepticism and rationalism, and for coining such terms as anesthesia. He is celebrated as a literary and cultural figure for such poems as Old Ironsides (considered responsible for saving the U.S.S. Constitution), for his ground-breaking contributions to The Atlantic Monthly (which he named), and for terming Boston the Hub of the solar system and describing its Brahmin caste. The present volume, celebrating the bicentennial of Holmes s birth, offers a fresh look at Holmes in both of his major (and often intermeshing) identities.

Professionals & Academics

Essays cover such topics as Johns Hopkins Personalia, Clinical Matters, Osler qua Osler, Ethical Issues, Miscellanea.

The Persisting Osler-IV, Selected Transactions of the American Osler Society 2001-2010

Literature & Fiction

Eds.

Jeremiah A. Barondess

Essays & Correspondence

This is an encyclopedia of about 1,000 pages related to Sir William Osler (1849-1919), who was the best-known physician in the English-speaking world during the early twentieth century and who is considered bysome "the father of modern medicine." It will contain biographical details pertaining to Osler; reminiscencesof Osler by his contemporaries along with biographical sketches of these contemporaries; summaries andanalyses of Osler's non-technical addresses; and brief accounts of historical figures and other figures whoinfluenced Osler's thinking on various subjects.

Sir William Osler: An Encyclopedia

Reference

Norman Publishing

VanderVeer, a surgeon and president of the American Osler Society, introduces medical students and newly minted physicians to the life and ideals of Sir William Osler, a pioneering Canadian-born physician and educator who was among the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital and of the modern medical residency

Osler for White Coat Pockets: A Vade Mecum for Medical Students and Residents

Joseph B. VanderVeer, Jr.

Masthof Press

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