title: Oliver Wendell Holmes: the professor and autocrat addresses medical matters.
abstract: Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician, poet and novelist, was a frequent and at times outspoken commentator on the practice of medicine. His speeches and writings reveal Holmes's remarkable wit and facility in addressing such topics as medical education, drug prescription and medicine in society. Although delivered in the previous century his comments often seem to retain remarkable relevance in the current medical forum.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000266:history; D014481:United States