Thomas Dwight (1843 – 1911) was an
anatomist and
teacher.
Born in
Boston
, Massachusetts
, Dwight became a Catholic
in 1856, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School
, 1867; after studying abroad, he was instructor in
comparative anatomy at Harvard College
, 1872-1873, he also lectured at Bowdoin College
, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 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. Dwight was a critic of
Darwinism, stating that the uneducated believed it.
He died in Nahant
, Massachusetts
, at age 68.
This article incorporates text from the 1910 New Catholic Dictionary.