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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
Doctors
Except
Lying
Littles
Little
Take
Apothecary
Families
Medicine
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