The Contagiousness Of Puerperal Fever

Do you know anyone who has died of puerperal fever? Probably not, thanks to this groundbreaking essay published by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1843. With great passion and...

The Professor At The Breakfast-table

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. Statements which were true then...

The Poet At The Breakfast-table

PREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries. The...