Biography:

Physician; Professor of medicine. Born– July 14, 1914, Marion. Parents– Warren Alton and Lula (Fretwell) Holley. Married– Martha Holcomb, 1946. Children– Five. Education– University of South Carolina, B.S., 1935; Medical College of South Carolina, M.D., 1941. Medical intern, U.S. Marine Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 1941-1942; with U.S. Public Health Service, 1942-1945; resident, University Hospital, Birmingham, 1945-1947; taught in the University of Alabama Department of Medicine after 1946; director, Tumor Clinic, 1953-1966; director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, 1955-1970; professor of medicine in rheumatology after 1970. Author of more than 300 journal articles, abstracts, and editorials, and of several chapters in books. Died March 17, 1988.

Source:

Howard L. Holley, Birmingham.

Publication(s):

The History of Medicine in Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1982.

A Continual Remembrance; Letters from Sir William Osler to His Friend Ned Milburn, 1865-1919. Springfield, Ill.; Charles C. Thomas, 1968.

Joint_Publication(s):

Antibiotics and Antibiotic Therapy; a Clinical Manual. New York; Macmillan Co., 1954.

Potassium Metabolism in Health and Disease. New York; Grune & Stratton, 1955.

Papers:

Papers of Dr. Howard Lamar Holley are held by the Archives Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.