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The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Michael A. Weinstein  

Brief Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Born: August 29, 1809

Education:
Phillips Academy 
                      Harvard University  
                          - doctorate in 1836
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Professor of anatomy and physiology
    at Dartmouth College

Medical innovations included
    identifying cause of childbirth fever; 
    coined word anæsthesia

Poet, Novelist

Contributor to Atlantic Monthly from its inception
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Died: October 8, 1894

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