Produced by David Widger




THE WORKS OF
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

AN INDEX

By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Project Gutenberg Editions



EDITOR'S NOTE:

This is the physician and poet, not his son of the same name who was a
Supreme Court Justice and famous in his own right. Very early on Dr.
Holmes became my mentor and guide in the philosophy of medicine. Though
his world-wide fame was based on his prose and poetry, he was an
eminent leader in medicine. Many—too many years ago I would often
assign Holmes' "Medical Essays" to a medical student whose sharp edges
of science needed some rounding-off with a touch of humanity. I have no
longer the privilege of assigning anything to anybody, yet encourage
any of you, especially any who may be physicians, to read the thoughts
of a family doctor of the early 1800's.
David Widger




AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

OVER THE TEACUPS

ELSIE VENNER

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

A MORTAL ANTIPATHY

PAGES FROM AND OLD VOLUME OF LIFE

MEDICAL ESSAYS

MEMOIR OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY




AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE



THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

 PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII




THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

PREFACE.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII




OVER THE TEACUPS

PREFACE.

OVER THE TEACUPS.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII.

IX

X

XI

XII




ELSIE VENNER

PREFACE.

A SECOND PREFACE.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

ELSIE VENNER.
	  CHAPTER I. 	THE BRAHMIN CASTE OF NEW ENGLAND.
	  CHAPTER II. 	THE STUDENT AND HIS CERTIFICATE.
	  CHAPTER III. 	MR. BERNARD TRIES HIS HAND.
	  CHAPTER IV. 	THE MOTH FLIES INTO THE CANDLE.
	  CHAPTER V. 	AN OLD-FASHIONED DESCRIPTIVE CHAPTER.
	  CHAPTER VI. 	THE SUNBEAM AND THE SHADOW.
	  CHAPTER VII. 	THE EVENT OF THE SEASON.
	  CHAPTER VIII. 	THE MORNING AFTER.
	  CHAPTER IX. 	THE DOCTOR ORDERS THE BEST SULKY.
	  CHAPTER X. 	THE DOCTOR CALLS ON ELSIE VENNER.
	  CHAPTER XI. 	COUSIN RICHARD'S VISIT.
	  CHAPTER XII. 	THE APOLLINEAN INSTITUTE.
	  CHAPTER XIII. 	CURIOSITY.
	  CHAPTER XIV. 	FAMILY SECRETS.
	  CHAPTER XV. 	PHYSIOLOGICAL.
	  CHAPTER XVI. 	EPISTOLARY.
	  CHAPTER XVII. 	OLD SOPHY CALLS ON THE REVEREND DOCTOR.
	  CHAPTER XVIII. 	THE REVEREND DOCTOR CALLS ON BROTHER FAIRWEATHER.
	  CHAPTER XIX. 	THE SPIDER ON HIS THREAD.
	  CHAPTER XX. 	FROM WITHOUT AND FROM WITHIN.
	  CHAPTER XXI. 	THE WIDOW ROWENS GIVES A TEA-PARTY.
	  CHAPTER XXII. 	WHY DOCTORS DIFFER.
	  CHAPTER XXIII. 	THE WILD HUNTSMAN.
	  CHAPTER XXIV. 	ON HIS TRACKS.
	  CHAPTER XXV. 	THE PERILOUS HOUR.
	  CHAPTER XXVI. 	THE NEWS REACHES THE DUDLEY MANSION.
	  CHAPTER XXVII. 	A SOUL IN DISTRESS.
	  CHAPTER XXVIII.   	THE SECRET IS WHISPERED.
	  CHAPTER XXIX. 	THE WHITE ASH.
	  CHAPTER XXX. 	THE GOLDEN CORD IS LOOSED.
	  CHAPTER XXXI. 	MR. SILAS PECKHAM RENDERS HIS ACCOUNT.
	  CHAPTER XXXII. 	CONCLUSION.




THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

TO MY READERS.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

	CHAPTER I.      AN ADVERTISEMENT.
	  CHAPTER II.   GREAT EXCITEMENT
	  CHAPTER III.  ANTECEDENTS.
	  CHAPTER IV.   BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M.
	  CHAPTER V. 	THE TWINS.
	  CHAPTER VI. 	THE USE OF SPECTACLES.
	  CHAPTER VII. 	MYRTLE'S LETTER—THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT.
	  CHAPTER VIII. 	DOWN THE RIVER.
	  CHAPTER IX. 	MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY RECEIVES A LETTER, AND BEGINS HIS ANSWER.
	  CHAPTER X. 	MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER—WHAT CAME OF IT.
	  CHAPTER XI. 	VEXED WITH A DEVIL.
	  CHAPTER XII. 	SKIRMISHING.
	  CHAPTER XIII. 	BATTLE.
	  CHAPTER XIV. 	FLANK MOVEMENT.
	  CHAPTER XV. 	ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS.
	  CHAPTER XVI. 	VICTORY.
	  CHAPTER XVII. 	SAINT AND SINNER
	  CHAPTER XVIII. 	VILLAGE POET.
	  CHAPTER XIX. 	SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN.
	  CHAPTER XX. 	THE SECOND MEETING.
	  CHAPTER XXI. 	MADNESS?
	  CHAPTER XXII. 	A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
	  CHAPTER XXIII. 	MYRTLE HAZARD AT THE CITY SCHOOL.
	  CHAPTER XXIV. 	MUSTERING OF FORCES.
	  CHAPTER XXV. 	THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER.
	  CHAPTER XXVI. 	MRS. CLYMER KETCHUM'S PARTY.
	  CHAPTER XXVII. 	MINE AND COUNTERMINE.
	  CHAPTER XXVIII. 	MR. BRADSHAW CALLS ON MISS BADLAM
	  CHAPTER XXIX. 	MISTRESS KITTY FAGAN CALLS ON MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY.
	  CHAPTER XXX. 	MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM.
	  CHAPTER XXXI. 	MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CONSULTS WITH JACOB PENHALLOW, ESQUIRE
	  CHAPTER XXXII. 	SUSAN POSEY'S TRIAL.
	  CHAPTER XXXIII.   	JUST AS YOU EXPECTED.
	  CHAPTER XXXIV. 	MURRAY BRADSHAW PLAYS HIS LAST CARD.
	  CHAPTER XXXV. 	THE SPOTTED PAPER.
	  CHAPTER XXXVI. 	CONCLUSION.




A MORTAL ANTIPATHY

 PREFACE.

INTRODUCTION.

THE NEW PORTFOLIO: FIRST OPENING.

A MORTAL ANTIPATHY.

	I. 	GETTING READY.
	  II. 	THE BOAT-RACE.
	  III. 	THE WHITE CANOE.
	  IV. 	THE YOUNG SOLITARY
	  V. 	THE ENIGMA STUDIED.
	  VI. 	STILL AT FAULT.
	  VII. 	A RECORD OF ANTIPATHIES
	  VIII. 	THE PANSOPHIAN SOCIETY.
	  IX. 	THE SOCIETY AND ITS NEW SECRETARY.
	  X. 	A NEW ARRIVAL.
	  XI. 	THE INTERVIEWER ATTACKS THE SPHINX.
	  XII. 	MISS VINCENT AS A MEDICAL STUDENT.
	  XIII. 	DR. BUTTS READS A PAPER.
	  XIV. 	MISS VINCENT'S STARTLING DISCOVERY.
	  XV. 	DR. BUTTS CALLS ON EUTHYMIA.
	  XVI. 	MISS VINCENT WRITES A LETTER.
	  XVII. 	Dr. BUTTS'S PATIENT.
	  XVIII. 	MAURICE KIRKWOOD'S STORY OF HIS LIFE.
	  XIX. 	THE REPORT OF THE BIOLOGICAL COMMITTEE.
	  XX. 	DR. BUTTS REFLECTS.
	  XXI. 	AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION.
	  XXII. 	EUTHYMIA.
	  XXIII.    	THE MEETING OF MAURICE AND EUTHYMIA.
	  XXIV. 	THE INEVITABLE.


POSTSCRIPT: AFTER-GLIMPSES.

MISS LURIDA VINCENT TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.

DR. BUTTS TO MRS. EUTHYMIA KIRKWOOD.

DR. BUTTS TO MRS. BUTTS.




PAGES FROM AND OLD VOLUME OF LIFE


BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER.

MY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN."

THE INEVITABLE TRIAL

CINDERS FROM THE ASHES.

THE PULPIT AND THE PEW.




MEDICAL ESSAYS


PREFACE.

A SECOND PREFACE.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS

THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER

CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE

BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS.

THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER

MEDICAL LIBRARIES.

SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS

APPENDUM

NOTES TO THE ADDRESS ON CURRENTS AND COUNTER CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.




MEMOIR OF JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY

	 Volume I.
	  I. 	1814-1827. To AEt. 13.
	  II. 	1827-1831. AEt. 13-17.
	  III. 	1832-1833. AEt. 18-19.
	  IV. 	1834-1839. 2Et. 20-25.
	  V. 	1841-1842. AEt. 27-28.
	  VI. 	1844. AEt. 30.
	  VII. 	1845-1847. AEt. 31-33.
	  VIII. 	1847-1849. AEt. 33-35.
	  IX. 	1850. AEt. 36.
	  X. 	1851-1856. AEt. 37-42.
	  XI. 	1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.
	  XII. 	1856-1857. AEt. 42-43.
	  XIII. 	1858-1860. AEt. 44-46.
	  XIV. 	1859. AEt. 45.
	  XV. 	1860. At. 46.
	 Volume II.
	  XVI. 	1860-1866. AEt. 46-52.
	  XVII. 	1861-1863. AEt. 47-49.
	  XVIII. 	1866-1867. AEt. 52-43.
	  XIX. 	1867-1868. AEt. 53-54.
	  XX. 	1868-1869. AEt. 54-55.
	  XXI. 	1869-1870. AEt. 55-56.
	 Volume III.
	  XXII. 	1874. AEt. 60.
	  XXIII.   	1874-1877. AEt. 60-63.
	  XXIV. 	CONCLUSION.

APPENDIX.