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TANULMÁNYOK - Ehrentheil, O. F.: Oliver Wendell Holmes és Semmelweis Jgnác egy és negyed századról visszatekintve (angol nyelven)

9. Many autobiographical notes are contained in Holmes' non-medical as well as in his medical writings. Delightful descriptions of this personality in: a) Bowen, Catherine (Drinker): Yankee from Olympos—Justice Holmes and his family, Boston, Little Brown and Co. 1945. (Call # in the Aesculapian Room-Biogr.) b) Small, Miriam (Rossiter): Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York, Twayne. 1962. (Call # 1-H625-1962) 10. Holmes, Oliver Wendell: Boylston Prize Dissertations for the years 1836 and 1837. a) Intermittent Fevers pp 1 — 134, b) Neuralgia 135—248, c) Direct Exploration pp 249—371 Boston, Little 1838 (Call # 1-Mw 1838 H) 11. Holmes, Oliver Wendell: Homeopathy and its kindred Delusions. Boston, Tickner 1842. (Call # l-Mw-1842-H) 12. Viets, Henry R.

: A mind prepared: O. W. Holmes and the contagiousness of puerperal fever, 1843. Bull. Med. Libr. Assoc. Oct. 1943 pp 319—325. 13. Hodge, Hugh L. : On the Non-Contagious Character of Puerperal Fever. Philadelphia, Collins 1852. (Call # 25-F-28-Nr.l5) 14. Meigs, Charles D.: On the Nature, Signs and Treatment of Childbed Fevers. Letter VI. pp 86-113. Philadelphia, Blanchard & Lea 1854. (Call # 25-F-ll) 15. Watson, Sir Thomas: Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic. Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea 1844. pp 850, 851 (Call # 6-S-9) 16. Clark, Paul F.: The Pioneer Microbiologists of America. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press. 1961 p 40 (Call # QW-1 l-A-C55p-1961) 17. Meigs, Wister J.: Contagionists, Anticontagionists and Puerperal Fever. Communicationes de História Artis Medicináé 62—63 (Budapest) (1971) pp 57-79 (Call # 1974-9-192 Guttenmacher collection) 18. Lesky, Erna: Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis und die Wiener Medizinische Schule. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosoph.-Histor. Klasse. Sitzungsberichte 245. Band, 3. Abhandlung. Wien. Bohlau Nachf. 1964. (Call # WZ-100-S471 L-1964). 19. Biographies of Semmelweis. See also ref. 8. and 18. a) Hegar, Alfred. Freiberg: B. 1882. (Call # l-Ea-593). b) Bruck, Jacob. Wien 1887 (Call # 25-Ah-54.). c) Schürer, Fritz: Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis, Sein Leben und Wirken. Wien. Hart leben 1905 (Call # l-Ea-436). d) Slaughter, Frank G. : Immortal Magyar. Semmelweis Conqueror of Childbed Fever. New York, Schuman 1950. (Call # l-Ea-934). e) Gortvay, György and Zoltán, Imre: Semmelweis His Life and Work Translated by Eve Rona, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1968 (Call # 1974-9-192 Guttenmacher collection) The Hungarian original edition: Semmelweis élete és munkássága Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1966. The biographies by Sinclair (ref. 8) and Slaughter are written in English and give a vivid picture of the man and his fight. The biography of Gortvay and Zoltán is the most recent and most thorough account of his life and work. 20. Schleisner, Peter A.: Die Pathologie des Kindbett

fiebers und der purulenten Infektion. Kopenhagen 1846. (not extant in the Countway Library). 21. Skoda, Joseph: Speech on Oct. 18, 1849. Sitzungsberichte mathematisch-naturwissenschafu lieber Classe d. Kaiserl. Akademie d. Wissenschaften. 3ter Band, 8. Heft pp 168—180, 1849. Reprinted Zeitschr. d. K. K. Gesellschaft d. Ärzte zu Wien. VI/1 pp 107-117, 1850. also reprinted in ref. 24 (Semmelweis' collected works). 22. Reports of meetings of the Society of physicians in Vienna about Semmelweis' speech and following discussion. Zeitschr. d. K. K. Gesallschaft d. Arzte zu Wien.