Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters

by Charles S. Bryan

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881353817
• ISBN13: 9780881353815
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Published for the Boston Medical Library by S
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.