Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes

QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM O. W. HOLMES, SR.
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Edited and Arranged by David Widger This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Quotes and Images From Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Edited and Arranged by David Widger Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #7545] [Last updated on February 17, 2007] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUOTES FOR O. W. HOLMES ***
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Editor's Note
This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same
name who was a Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr. Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine. Though his world-wide fame was based on his prose and poetry, he was an eminent leader in medicine. Many—too many years ago I would often assign Holmes' "Medical Essays" to a medical student whose sharp edges of science needed some rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no longer the privilege of assigning anything to anybody, yet encourage any of you, especially any who may be physicians, to read the thoughts of a family doctor of the early ...