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THOMAS DWIGHT

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Anatomist, b. at Boston, 1843; d. at Nahant, 8 Sept., 1911. The son of Thomas
Dwight and of Mary Collins Warren, with his mother he became a Catholic in 1856.
He attended Harvard College and graduated from its medical school in 1867. After
studying abroad, he was appointed in 1872 instructor in comparative anatomy at
Harvard, lectured also at Bowdoin, and in 1883 succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes
as Parkman professor of anatomy. Dr. Dwight's talent for organization enabled
him to effect a needed reconstruction of the Harvard Medical School. In 1872 he
published his "Frozen Sections of a Child", and in 1907 "A Clinical Atlas of
Variations of the Bones of the Hands and Feet". He was also a frequent
contributor to scientific journals. In the Warren Museum of Anatomy Dr. Dwight
arranged a section of osteology which is considered the best in existence, and
he enjoyed an international reputation as an anatomist. Long a zealous member of
a conference of St. Vincent de Paul, he died president of the central council.
In 1883 Dr. Dwight married Miss Sarah C. Iasigi of Boston and eight children
were born to them. His "Thoughts of a Catholic Anatomist" (New York, 1911) is a
valuable work of Christian apologetics, for neither in his life nor in his
writings had Dr. Dwight any difficulty in reconciling faith and science.


SOURCES

The American Catholic Quarterly Review (Jan., 1912); America (30 Sept., 1911);
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (4 Jan., 1912); Anatomical Record (Nov.,
1911).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Dwight, W. (1914). Thomas Dwight. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: The Encyclopedia Press. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037a.htm

MLA citation. Dwight, Walter. "Thomas Dwight." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
16 (Index). New York: The Encyclopedia Press, 1914.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F.
Holbrook. Ut aquila versus coelum.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1914. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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