Holmes, Oliver Wendell , American Author and Physician
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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL , American author and physician 1809 94, American author and physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1829; M.D., 1836); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He began his medical career as...