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Sep 10: Holmes' POEMS

Famous Poet-Physician

One of America's famous New Englanders, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, devoted his life principally to medicine. His name,
however, was made famous through his poem, "Old Ironsides,"
by which he saved America's most famous battleship from destruction
when her fighting days were ended.

Read: Holmes' POEMS .............................   Vol. 42, pp. 1365-1370