BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE. In Some Provinces of Medical Science. An Introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861.
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
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(Printed by Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge for) Ticknor and Fields, Boston: 1862., 1862 80p. Note original pagination errors in last signature. Bookplates of Bayard Henderson Christy, Ornithologist, 1899 and W. Emmert Swigart. Small 8vo. Original full publisher's cloth binding, embossed and lettered in blind. Spine lettered in gold. Slight sun fading top of front board. Holmes began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into academics, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouth (1838-40), dean of Harvard Medical School (1847-82). He published two important medical lectures, including this one - promoting scientific discoveries in opposition to the practice of homeopathy, phrenology, and other `alternative' therapies. (The other was on the nature of fevers). His main fame though comes as a poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. Most famous of these are `The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table' (1858) and several subsequent volumes where he presents imaginary conversations at a Boston boardinghouse, full of Holmes's urbane opinions, charm, and wit. Heirs of Hippocrates 1750; Cushing H408; Waller 4848; Tilton Holmes Bibliography pp. 105-6; Cordasco 60-0901; BAL 8814/2. A better than very good copy. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7 Language: eng. Full Cloth. Hardcover.. Very Good Plus.
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- BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE. In Some Provinces of Medical Science. An Introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Harvard University, November 6th, 1861.
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- Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good Plus
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- (Printed by Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge for) Ticknor and Fields, Boston: 1862.
- Date Published
- 1862
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- MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; PHRENOLOGY; SCIENCE; HISTORY; OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; LECTURE; HARVARD; 1862
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- PHILOSOPHY; MEDICINE / HEALTH; SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY;
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