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A284/20: Oliver Wendell Holmes: portrait

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01-01-1997



The eminent American writer and anatomist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was the first dean of Harvard Medical School. Holmes, a true Renaissance man, was also a published novelist; the most famous of his stories was the pre-Freudian "Elsie Venner".

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