BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

The Francis A. Countway
Librery of Medicine

COPYRIGHT, 1861, 1862, 1883, 1889, 1890, AND 1891,

BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS.

I. HOMEOPATHY AND ITS Kindred DeLUSIONS

II. THE CONTAGIOUSNESS OF PUERPERAL FEVER

III.

CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCI-

IV. BORDER LINES OF KNOWLEDGE IN SOME PROVINCES OF

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