(MEDICINE) HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL Autograph Letter Signed wit

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(MEDICINE.) HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, with initials, to John O. Sargent, apologizing for not writing and describing his medical studies. 3 pages, folded 4to sheet; remnants of prior mounting, minor holes on second leaf from opening. Paris, 2 November 1834

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very early letter from holmes written while studying to be a physician at the école de médecine in paris: ". . . I am at the present moment living not only the most laborious, but by far the most unvaried and in its outward circumstances most unexciting mode of life that I have ever lived. Nearly five hours in the day I pass at the bedside of patients, and you may imagine that this is no trifling occupation when I tell you that it is always with my note book in my hand, that I often devote nearly two hours to investigating a difficult case in order that no element can escape me and that I have always hundreds of patients under my eye. Add to this the detailed and laborious examination of all the organs of the body in such cases as are fatal . . ."