(MEDICINE) HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL Autograph Letter Signed

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(MEDICINE.) HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, to J. W. Newman, giving him medical advice. 3 pages, folded 8vo sheet. With the original envelope. Boston, 12 July 1867

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" . . . Any deterioration of health, not accounted for in some other way suggests the possibilty of consumptive disease . . . do not let any body turn this possibility into a certainty . . . Whether she has or not that will take every hope and help to kill her. . . I doubt about sending patients far from home, except under special circumstances . . . Minnesota is said to be admirable for cases of the kind to which your letter refers . . . As for codliver oil, whiskey etc. etc. they should only be used under the eye of a physician . . ."
Holmes's letters with medical content are quite scarce.