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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/hoʊmz/; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the...
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes may refer to: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet, physician, and essayist, father of the judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr...
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902...
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    is coquettish and flirtatious. This usage can be seen in one of Oliver Wendell Holmes' early poems "Our Yankee Girls" (1830): ...the gay grisette, whose...
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    Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and...
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    The phrase "Brahmin Caste of New England" was first coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a physician and writer, in a January 1860 article in The Atlantic...
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    Old Ironsides (poem) (category Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)
    "Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution...
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    The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (category Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)
    the Breakfast-Table (1858) is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in...
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    built in 1929 and renovated in 1987 and 2019. It is named after Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. '25, the poet and physician. Built in the Georgian Revival architectural...
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    Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf...
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    gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar," in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence"...
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    evidence that homeopathy is effective beyond the placebo effect. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1842). Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions: Two lectures delivered...
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  • including such historical figures as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James Russell Lowell, who are translating Dante Alighieri's...
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    choose a name. Griffin suggested they call it Wendell, in honor of his favorite poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes. However, the townspeople pronounce each syllable...
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    letters and speeches by Dexter added by editors. 19th-century poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wrote in The Atlantic in 1890, "I am afraid that Mr. Emerson and...
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    (1740–1804), married Oliver Wendell (1733–1818) Sarah Wendell married the Reverend Abiel Holmes (1763–1837) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), married...
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    James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George T. Davis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Isaac Edward Morse, Benjamin Peirce, George W. Richardson, and...
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    Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Quincy Adams, Margaret Fuller, Francis Parkman...
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  • Johan Stagnelius United States: William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Rodman Drake, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., George Sterling, John Neal...
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Sometimes the "Jr." or "Sr...
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    and Letters of Dr Samuel Hahnemann". Retrieved 24 December 2007. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1842). "Homoeópathy and its kindred delusions: Two lectures delivered...
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  • (born 1992), Canadian rugby player Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894), poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935), justice of the Supreme...
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    Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions (category Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)
    Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions is a work by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., based upon two lectures he gave in 1842, Medical Delusions and Homœopathy...
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    at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, also in Paris, and counted Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. as one of his students. After graduation, Louis accompanied the...
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    "Fairview", elevation 550 feet (170 m), was the inspiration for Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to record in his 1862 journal: In approaching Frederick the singular...
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  • criticism against them was said to have abated. Around the same time, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was claimed to have campaigned for the bathtub against remaining...
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    personal vocational crisis after leaving his role as a minister. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. declared this speech to be "the declaration of independence of...
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  • Guy de Chauliac and others trained in the classical tradition. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever in 1843 Antiseptics...
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    the work of Semmelweis (as well as the similar conclusions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., working in the United States of America) began to spread around...
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    Kenneth Galbraith Henry Louis Gates Jr. Asa Gray Seamus Heaney Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. William James Timothy Leary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell...
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