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 . <\/p>\n
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 … Continue reading “Thomas Dwight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}