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Oliver
Wendell Holmes was a poet, a writer, and an essayist. He was born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts in 1809. He entered law school but later gave that up for
medicine. He was a professor in Boston when he wrote his first essay called
"Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever". Some of his work as a writer
include Old Ironsides, The Guardian Angel, The Last Leaf, and the Chambered
Nautilus. Oliver Wendall Holmes died in 1894.
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