Memorials to Dr. Thomas Dwight / by J. Collins Warren, John Bapst Blake and David Cheever.

  • John Collins Warren
Date:
1912
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Credit: Memorials to Dr. Thomas Dwight / by J. Collins Warren, John Bapst Blake and David Cheever. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    anatomy. They are already a matter of record. He was an enthusiastic and zealous student of gross systematic anatomy. He returned well- equipped from his studies in Europe for the pur- suit of microscopic anatomy and embryology, but his inclination and perhaps his early interest in clinical work led him more and more definitely along the line of gross anatomy. Here, even in the early days of his teaching, the opportunity for original work was limited and further narrowed year by year, and it was natural that after master- ing normal anatomy his attention was drawn to the study of variations, especially of the bony skeleton. Here he made himself a master, un- rivaled in this country and perhaps elsewhere. In connection with these and other investigations he enriched the Warren Museum with valuable collections made by his own hands, which will endure as a worthy monument of his industry. He was an indefatigable worker. There are probably eighty publications from his pen, vary- ing from a brief monograph to the important contribution which he made to Piersol’s “ Anat- omy.” It is undoubtedly as a teacher that he deserves to be held in the highest esteem. He entered his career when the didactic lecture to a large class had reached and passed its zenith, and his active life witnessed the development of personal and sectional teaching to small groups of students. With him, however, the didactic lecture retained its title to recognition. He dearly loved to lecture.
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