Dr. Holmes at 200 — The Spirit of Skepticism  

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Bryan, Charles S. ; Podolsky, Scott H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 361 no. 09 (Aug. 2009), page 846-847.

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This week marks the bicentennial of the birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29, 1809–October 7, 1894), who at various times during the 19th century was America's best-known physician and best-selling author. His essay on the contagiousness of puerperal fever (1843), which prefigured the germ theory by two decades, constitutes his strongest claim to medical immortality. He also introduced microscopy to North American medical students, championed bedside teaching, coined the terms "anesthesia" and "anesthetic agents," named tuberculosis "the white plague," and critiqued his era's therapies, from bloodletting to homeopathy. His "Breakfast-Table" series for the Atlantic Monthly (a periodical that he named), remarkable for its mold-breaking conversations interspersed with such poems as "The Chambered Nautilus," made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic, and scholars now examine his less-successful "medicated novels" (as he called them) as precursors of analytic psychiatry and depth psychology.

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