A one-horse shay is a light, covered, two-wheeled carriage for two persons, drawn by a single horse. Frustrated at the frequent breakdowns of his shay, the fictional deacon in this poem built this wonderful, and perfect, one-horse shay from the very best

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer and author. Holmes wrote his first book of essays entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table in 1831, while in medical training. Essays in Medical Essays include Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions -- The contagiousness of puerperal fever -- Currents and counter-currents in medical science -- Border lines of knowledge in some provinces of medical science -- Scholastic and bedside teaching -- The medical profession in Massachusetts -- The young practitioner -- Medical libraries -- Some of my early...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894) was an American polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny is an 1861 novel by American author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Later dubbed the first of his "medicated novels," it tells the story of a neurotic young woman whose mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant, which imbued the child with some characteristics of the reptile.The novel is narrated by an unnamed medical professor. One of his students, Bernard Langdon, had to interrupt his medical studies to...