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Thomas Dwight

January 01, 1970

For the Congressman from Boston from 1803 to 1805, see Thomas Dwight (politician).

Thomas Dwight (1843–1911) was an American physician, anatomist and teacher.

Thomas Dwight
Thomas Dwight with skull, 1896.
BornOctober 13, 1843
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedSeptember 8, 1911 (1911-09-09) (aged 67)
Nahant, Massachusetts
Occupationphysician, anatomist and professor.
SpouseSarah C. Iasigi

Early ife edit

Thomas Dwight was born on October 13, 1843, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] His father was also named Thomas Dwight (born September 27, 1807 – 1876 [2]), part of the New England Dwight family. His mother was Mary Collins Warren (b. Jan 19, 1816-Oct 22. 1900 [3]), whose father John Collins Warren (1778 –1856), and grandfather John Warren (1753–1815) were both surgeons.[4]

 
Dr John Collins Warren with skull 1850

Dwight joined the Catholic Church in 1856, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1867. He then studied abroach.

Career edit

Dwight was instructor in comparative anatomy at Harvard College, from 1872 to 1873. Hee also lectured at Bowdoin College. He succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. as Parkman professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School in 1883.

In the Warren Museum of Anatomy at Harvard, Dwight arranged a section of osteology, considered one of the best in existence, and he had an international reputation as an anatomist.[5]

Among his writings are: "Frozen Sections of a Child" (1872); "Clinical Atlas of Variations of the Bones of the Hands and Feet" (1907); "Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist" (1911),[6] a valuable work of Christian apologetics.[7]

Personal life edit

Dwight died September 8, 1911, in Nahant, Massachusetts, at age 68.[8][9]

Selected works edit

  • The Anatomy of the Head. Boston: H.O. Houghton & Company, 1876.
  • Frozen Sections of a Child. New York: William Wood & Company, 1881.
  • Commonplaces of History. Boston: Review Pub. Co., 1900.
  • A Clinical Atlas, Variations of the Bones of the Hands and Feet. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907.
  • The Church and Science. Boston: Review Pub. Co., 1908.
  • Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.
  • Human Anatomy. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1923.

Articles edit

 
Man standing in a pose close to Durvasasana, an asana in hatha yoga. Figure 12 in Dwight's "The Anatomy of a Contortionist", 1889
  • "Remarks on the Brain, Illustrated by the Description of the Brain of a Distinguished Man," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 13, 1877–1878.
  • "The Significance of Anatomical Anomalies," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XI, 1886.
  • "Science or Bumblepuppy," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XII, 1887.
  • "The Range of Variation of the Human Shoulder-Blade," The American Naturalist, Vol. 21, No. 7, Jul., 1887.
  • "Anatomy of the Contortionist," Scribner's, April 1889.
  • "What Is Right-Handedness?," Scribner's, April 1891.
  • "Observations on the Psoas Parvus and Pyramidalis. A Study of Variation," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 31, No. 140, 1893.
  • "Sir Richard Owen," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 28, 1892–1893.
  • "Reminiscences of Dr. Holmes, as Professor of Anatomy," Scribner's, January 1895.
  • "The Significance of Anomalies," The American Naturalist, Vol. 29, No. 338, 1895.
  • "The Teaching of Anatomy," Science, New Series, Vol. 4, No. 83, 1896.
  • "Anatomy Laws versus Body Snatching," The Forum, December 1896.
  • "Mutations," Science, New Series, Vol. 21, No. 536, 1905.

Gallery edit

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    Dr. Thomas Dwight, lecturing students, 1906.
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    Dr. Thomas Dwight, 1843–1911.

References edit

  1. ^ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Dwight, Thomas" . American Medical Biographies . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
  2. ^ Death date Cataloge of the Officers of Harvard Class of 1827 pub 1905
  3. ^ Death date Authority of James Archer O'Reilly III, author "Memorials of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati" pub 2004 Boston
  4. ^ Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight (1874). The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass. Vol. 2. J.F. Trow & Son, printers and bookbinders. p. 893.
  5. ^ Windle, Bertram (1912). "Thomas Dwight." In: Twelve Catholic Men of Science. London: Catholic Truth Society, pp. 225–247.
  6. ^ "A Catholic Anatomist," The New York Times, August 27, 1911.
  7. ^ . New Catholic Dictionary. 1910. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
  8. ^ "Thomas Dwight, M.D., LL.D". The Anatomical Record. 5 (11): 531–539. 1911. doi:10.1002/ar.1090051104. S2CID 221399971.
  9. ^ "Dr. Dwight Thomas Dead," The New York Times, September 9, 1911.

External links edit

January 01, 1970
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