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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to being an author and a poet,…
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science · American poet, essayist, physician (1809–1894) · physician · poet · physician writer · university teacher · novelist · medical author · writer · also Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Holmes
Born 29 August 1809 · Died 7 October 1894 · Q319829
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,040 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data” in Nature Methods — cited 33,111 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data” in PLoS ONE — cited 20,116 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “The WEKA data mining software” in ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter — cited 13,093 times.
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1915· 1 entry
Bostonians placed a memorial seat and sundial behind Holmes's final home at 296 Beacon Street in a spot where he would have seen it from his library
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1894· 5 entries
Died 1894-10-07.
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“Sem termos consciência de estar usando máscaras, temos uma cara específica para cada amigo.”
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“His death was as peaceful as one could wish for those one loves. He simply ceased to breathe.”
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“O homem tem a sua vontade — mas a mulher impõe a dela.”
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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
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1893· 1 entry
Where he presented the poem "To the Teachers of America"
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1884· 1 entry
Holmes published a book dedicated to the life and works of his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1882· 1 entry
And continued writing poetry, novels and essays until his death in 1894
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1876· 2 entries
“they come at length to live so much in memory that they often think with a kind of pleasure of losing their dearest possessions. Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered”
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At the age of seventy, Holmes published a biography of John Lothrop Motley, which was an extension of an earlier sketch he had written for the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings
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1864· 1 entry
Longfellow invited several friends to help at weekly meetings held on Wednesdays
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1863· 2 entries
Holmes wrote, "how idle it is to look for any other cause than slavery as having any material agency in dividing the country" and declared it as one of "its sins against a just God"
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“how idle it is to look for any other cause than slavery as having any material agency in dividing the country”
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1861· 1 entry
And the start of the Civil War, Holmes began publishing pieces—the first of which was the patriotic song "A Voice of the Loyal North"—in support of the Union cause
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1858· 1 entry
And became his most enduring work, selling ten thousand copies in three days
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1856· 1 entry
The Atlantic or Saturday Club was created to launch and support The Atlantic Monthly
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1855· 1 entry
Holmes published a revised version of the essay in the form of a pamphlet under the new title Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence, and discussing additional cases
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1850· 1 entry
Holmes became a witness for both the defense and prosecution during the notorious Parkman–Webster murder case
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1848· 1 entry
And she and her husband used the money to build a summer house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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1847· 1 entry
Holmes was hired as Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard Medical School, where he served as dean until 1853 and taught until 1882
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1846· 1 entry
Holmes coined the word anaesthesia
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1843· 1 entry
Presented his research to the society, which he then published as a paper "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" in the short-lived publication New England Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery
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1842· 2 entries
Holmes attended a lecture by Walter Channing to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement about puerperal fever, or "childbed fever", a disease which at the time was a significant cause of mortality of women after deliv
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Published the essay "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions" in which he again denounced the practice
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1840· 1 entry
Holmes married Amelia Lee Jackson at King's Chapel in Boston
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1837· 1 entry
Holmes was appointed to the Boston Dispensary, where he was shocked by the poor hygienic conditions
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1833· 1 entry
Holmes traveled to Paris to further his medical studies
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1830· 2 entries
And was influential in the eventual preservation of the USS Constitution
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“Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man”
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1829· 1 entry
Briefly studied law before turning to the medical profession
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1809· 1 entry
Born 1809-08-29.
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