New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-08
DIR. HOLMES as A PHYSICIAN.
"REMINISCENCES OF HIS PROFESSIONAL
LIFE.
From The Bostor Advertiser.

LIFE.
From The Bostor Advertiser.
At that memorable gathering, the breakfast Ten,
dcrcd 20 DR. Holmes on the occasion Of his seventeen
birthday. in the midst OF the many tll3uleS 10 INC
man of letters President Eliot, of Harvard UhNe.Si{,
arose to remind. he said, all the poets essdyl'S
and story clcIs there assembled that the man Wol.
of his friends life had been OF another man lersS
value of his services as student and teacher VI ILc
noble science Of anatomy similarly IT appe 9
appropriate I'm observing, however modeStH Di.
Holiness cightcth birthday, 10 set iorth as lu'y a.
aymau can. the amount and value OF the "orh
which he has accomplished as physician E'elS 9mc
tbe least intcrcstcd IN literature knows the wonder
ful history of his literary lie; and appreciata 10
the full its value, but few outside his own profession
rcalizo that his writings have been, so to say, eX-
ternal to an unusually constant and productive pro-
After his graduation from Harvard in 1920, Dr.
Holmes spent year in The study of the law, ana a3a
doned It at the end Of that time for medicine, whCI
was much more cOngenal to his tastes. For the next
two wears and hail he studied in Boston under Drs
Lewis and G.. W. Otis, and thon-Aprl, 1o33-salded
for Europe, where he remained until OCTOBER ,Ioo2,
henc most Of the time at the EcOle de Medicine IN
Paris following the hospitals and attending more par
tcuary the lectures of Louis the cele6raed medG b
returned to his fathers in Cambridge, but soon after
removed 10 a boardng-house IN Boston az ~ ~ and
began practice. shortly aferward he and DIS jacob
Bgelow Edward Reynolds and David HUMP hreS oGrvt
established themselves teachers Of medicine taxing
the name of the fremont Medical Scnool ms scdo t
was very successful and graaqaliy became IL
In 1889 Dr. Holmes was appointed pToieSs Scbo 0
anatomy and physiology In Dartmouth no4i q" med
"a position he held for two years, when ne rslsncu
in ordor TO resume his medical practice "a bOs on.
soon aerwa he was ap9 Un . one 70 OF the district
comprising the neiGhborhoO1 OF Broa1 anu cIass
Of irish. In February 1546-the year in which TIE
new wings were addd-he was appointed QUO c ~
xHEs, phySc,a3 SicS he getansd 1n 154o when
I'm consequence Of long annual absences III El',sleu,
Sd9c he he r 9s he place Meanwhile 8l7 he
hal boon appointed professor of anatomy IN Harvard
caNgaS " IN me 1yaryiRg and brilliant success from
his thrtyoighth 10 his scventy-thrd year Wm us
Dr. Holiness career as a practising PhFsNidI va,
| confined TO the few years between his es.SnatQn
6t ms OF vstirg physcaH at he Massachusetts, Cen
eaI Hospital subsequent TO his appontment as S
! know.edce Was still comparatively meagre Inc
nractice was wholly in the hands Of family ply ans
%Lo Sone' Illus DR. Reynolds and Dr. Jedreys
practsed as ocuists and auI1sts' ana Dr. naV" nv
lanes Jackson was tho leading medical practitioner
| and DR. j. c. Warren the leading surgeon, -, cood,s
study Of Medicine large book in I'VE GGtaT o
| volumes which attempted rev ciaSs'a.a o .E ID
diIcaees II Is antlquatcd now and rs new ga olu
ao9 has not wthstoJd the assaults Of criticism.
bnt Il sll has virtue enough IN us pasqs 20 nob
rIacn I'm Nell furnished medical Libraries, Ior nor
piSe at least a. measure OF progress Inc prtctSe
was such as can more easily as'oclab "1,a en9
ep ot,rv " Eleedns' commonly employed
ice"bps were applied, and tartar epeuc irCeE az
Minister'S rctcnt nracticc II have myself hea
Par' nr Holmes OF the days when these tests were
say say rr r doctor gavey commenting on symptoms
An ma wrong end of the sethOscOpe appueI 10 ms
n -, OuIum and cinchOna In their various forms re-
oa ~ tbcv sim DO, their pre-enlintnce IN me
nbarmacopoela while oalomel was Regarded as almost
panGh'crI os the pra.tice OF medicine when Dr.
n mos wa a Young man, and the paragraph serves
LIN IN Indicate It's pIOgrcssa progress II Is hardly
vra ~ add ali Of which he shared and much
W u,Jhinb no caused. OF fOrtytwo titles In a bOl
o % mb Of Dr. Holiness writings which we hayt
V4st"p"' a. We write, no less than twenty relate e
DSdIcai subjects or these works the most importan
! - Tho e.says tIis prey aence or intermlttcH
| S CO. in New England, A work requiring painiu
urations az original sources OF knowledge, whci
| sIowed TIE intermittent fever was almost unknown
an oioccdes where Il Is now prevalent; The essay
mn Homeopathy, which the doctor r'gfo's, have no
1nevented that fantastic sysem from AZ aiming
certain financial and popular success, ana the leetur
declaring the contae Ousness OF puesperl lever "hV
after having caused at the time OF It's d,Nciy y
IsI3 a lively controversy has since been aohndahI
nroved hy latcr addit oral evidence. These snu N,
| other writings are much. but undoubtedly pr 10 me
CRATES, services "a medicine hav' been Pitofhrl u
! Connection with HIS work teacher As moy %
scen by CLAIMING back throught This article, pf
Holmes ,ince receiving his degree, has been Amos
continuously actively engaged In teacblng -, -,
OF the fortysi years Of his professional NE hearI
all havs been pas sed as q teacheg-two as fFoleSso