A collection of essays, fiction, medical papers, and memoirs by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., the American physician and writer. It includes the Breakfast-Table series, the novel Elsie Venner, and writings on medicine and society. Its conversational wit and wide view of nineteenth-century American life make it rewarding to explore.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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THE ENTIRE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. CONTENTS: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table The Professor at the Breakfast-table The Poet at the Breakfast Table Over the Teacups Elsie Venner The Guardian Angel A Mortal Antipathy Pages from an Old Volume of Life Bread and the Newspaper My Hunt after "The Captain"
The Inevitable Trial
Cinders from Ashes
The Pulpit and the Pew
Medical Essays
Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions
The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science
Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science
Scholastic and Bedside Teaching
The Medical Profession in Massachusetts
The Young Practitioner
Medical Libraries
Some of My Early Teachers
A Memoir of John Lothrop Motley
A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Hundred Days in Europe
THE AUTOCRAT OF THE
BREAKFAST-TABLE
THE AUTOCRAT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration.
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