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Unlocking your world of creativity, with best-selling author and brand innovator, Mark Stinson.

Hello, everyone.

In today's episode of our podcast, I wanted to share a creative inspiration originally published in 1891.

It's a collection of essays from Oliver Windelholm Sr.

This medical essays included homeopathy, currents in medical science, and borderlines of knowledge.

It was originally published by the Boston Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge

between 1842 and 1882, and then finally published as the collection of essays in 1891.

Now, I publish this as a part of a series called Innovation Classics.

And this edition of this series is dedicated to collecting and publishing the best and perhaps underappreciated innovation writings of the past.

So in today's episode, I'll share some readings from my introduction of the book and from the author's introduction of the book, medical essays by Oliver Windelholm Sr.

with my introduction and commentary.

Design to engage your imagination.

This collection brings together some of the premier publications across generations.

Along the way, we'll feature subjects ranging from vegetarian diets to alcohol addiction.

And we'll share seminal books like this volume.

This collection of essays is by a man who defines the persona of a poet, doctor.

Whether Oliver Windelholm Sr. was more of a poet than a doctor remains debatable.

He wrote poetry, prose, criticism, history, and memoirs from 1830 until his death.

His medical practice was largely confined to the training of doctors, although several of his medical research projects were path-breaking contributions to modern epidemiology.

A Harvard graduate, where he was the class poet in 1829, he first trained to be a medical doctor in Boston.

He then went to Paris for advanced medical training and came home in ardent disciple of Pierre Charles Alexander Lewis,

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