Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes -Holmes Biography

- Michael A. Weinstein

Brief Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Born: August 29, 1809
Education: Phillips Academy Harvard University - doctorate in 1836
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
Died: October 8, 1894