Papers of Thomas Dwight, 1869-1873 (inclusive).

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Papers of Thomas Dwight, 1869-1873 (inclusive).

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Contains mainly letters from Thomas Dwight to his mother Mary Collins Dwight written while studying medicine in Vienna and Munich and while teaching at Bowdoin College. Also contains letters to his younger sister Mary while teaching at Bowdoin, a letter to his father Thomas written from Europe, and a letter to Dwight from Charles W. Eliot offering him an appointment to teach anatomy at Harvard. Letters primarily concern family affairs, social contacts, and practical matters. Dwight also describes laboratory experiences and research with Salomon Stricker in Vienna and Nicolaus Rüdinger in Munich; his visits to medical schools and hospitals in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, and Queenstown, and observation of Lister demonstrating aseptic surgical techniques; also includes accounts of lectures and clinical experience at Bowdoin.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Dwight, Mary E., 1895-1987

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Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

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Professor of anatomy at Harvard; editor of the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." From the description of Thomas Dwight letter to Houghton Mifflin & Co. [manuscript], 1884 January 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 664829000 Dwight (Harvard, M.D. 1867) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School from 1883 to 1911 and also taught at Bowdoin Medical School in Maine, 1874-1876. During study in Europe, he obtained experience using frozen...