Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters Hardcover one might feel ‘a certain

one might feel ‘a certain unease at the very notion of tracing the migration of something as evanescent as an idea

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and the general interest in this aspect of his life may be responsible for the fact that his mathematical and scientific achievements are less known

though not recognized as such

what some may mistake at the outset for a clearly defined discipline (oceanography) becomes

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Physician and Man of Letters Hardcover one might feel ‘a certainPodolsky, Scott H., and Charles S. Bryan, eds., 288pp., illus. Oliver Wendell Holmes (18091894) spent parts of the nineteenth century as Americas best known physician and best selling author. Sir William Osler praised him as the most successful combination which the world has ever seen, of the physician and man of letters. Henry James, Sr., called him intellectually the most alive man I ever knew. Today, he is remembered as a physician for his