Lindskog G E
Yale J Biol Med. 1974 Dec;47(4):277-80.
The life of Oliver Wendell Holmes was selected as the subject for a lecture in the 1974 History of Medicine series at Yale University School of Medicine because, as the Latin subtitle of the essay suggests, he represents a fortunate and uncommon, but by no means unique, synthesis of the practical and aesthetic, of science and the humanities. An attempt has been made by the lecturer, employing frequent, but brief, excerpts from the works of several disinguished biographers as well as Doctor Holmes' own lectures, medical papers, essays and poems to delineate the elite heritage and the events that led this complex person transiently into the sudy of law, the profession in which his older son reached the pinnacle of the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally into medicine where a short period of private practice was followed by more than three decades of distinguished teaching is anatomy. His lifetime (1809-1894) spanned most of the nineteenth century, in the literary hisory of which he played a significant role. His writings reveal a remarkable, and sometimes prophetic, appreciation of the impact that burgeoning science and evolving social pressures and changes would have on the teaching and practice of medicine in the future-our present.
奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯的一生被选为1974年耶鲁大学医学院医学史系列讲座的主题，因为正如该论文的拉丁文副标题所暗示的，他代表了一种幸运且罕见，但绝非独一无二的实践与美学、科学与人文的融合。演讲者试图通过频繁引用几位杰出传记作者的作品以及霍姆斯医生自己的讲座、医学论文、散文和诗歌中的简短摘录，来描绘他的精英传承以及那些使这个复杂的人短暂涉足法律学习的事件，他的长子在法律领域达到了美国最高法院的巅峰，而他最终投身医学，在短暂的私人行医之后，是三十多年卓越的解剖学教学经历。他的一生（1809 - 1894）跨越了19世纪的大部分时间，在文学史上他发挥了重要作用。他的作品展现出对新兴科学以及不断演变的社会压力和变革对未来——也就是我们现在——医学教学和实践所产生影响的非凡，有时甚至是预言性的理解。
