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Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes could kill a bad idea with a sentence, and here he takes aim at several. These essays include his demolition of homeopathy and kindred delusions and his historic argument that doctors themselves were spreading childbed fever. Four decades of wit, evidence, and beautifully turned prose from medicine's sharpest essayist. Come for the controversy, stay for the writing.
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17 chapters
- 1MEDICAL ESSAYS
- 21842-1882
- 3PREFACE.
- 4A SECOND PREFACE.
- 5PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.
- 6HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS
- 7THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER
- 8Printed in 1843; reprinted with additions, 1855.
- 9CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- 10BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.
- 11SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING.
- 12THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS.
- 13THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER
- 14MEDICAL LIBRARIES.
- 15SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS
- 16APPENDUM
- 17NOTES TO THE ADDRESS ON CURRENTS AND COUNTER CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.
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