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Harvard Classics, Vol. 38, Part 5
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Lecture, Harvard Medical School.
Oliver Wendell
Holmes

Harvard Classics, Vol. 38, Part 5

The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Although Oliver Wendell Holmes is mainly known for his verse and fiction, he also made significant contributions to medical science, as this essay demonstrates.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note

  1. The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
  2. Additional References and Cases