Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Description	Cartes de visite photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes from page 15 of an anonymous album. Holmes was a physician, poet, and essayist who established the contagiousness of puerperal sepsis before Semmelweiss. Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians. Publisher: Boston: Silsbee, Case & Co., Photographic Artists, 299 1/2 Washington Street.
Date created	[1860-1880]
Subject	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Identifier	02208
Resource type	Image
Holding entity	David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Archival collection	History of Medicine Collection

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• Historical Images In Medicine