Thomas Dwight
Thomas Dwight
Anatomist and teacher, born Boston , Massachusetts, 1843 ; died Nahant, Massachusetts, 1911 . He became a Catholic in 1856 , and graduated from the Harvard Medical School, 1867 ; after studying abroad, he was instructor in comparative anatomy at Harvard, 1872 -1873 , lectured also at Bowdoin, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as Parkman professor of anatomy at Harvard Medical School, 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 . 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 ), a valuable work of Christian apologetics .