page_title: Thomas Dwight
section_title: Articles
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Dwight / Selected works / Articles
caption_attribution_description: English: Man standing in a pose close to Durvasasana in hatha yoga. Figure 12 from Thomas Dwight's "The Anatomy of a Contortionist", Scribner's Magazine, April 1889, p. 498
context_page_description: Thomas Dwight was an American physician, anatomist and teacher.
context_section_description: "Remarks on the Brain, Illustrated by the Description of the Brain of a Distinguished Man," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 13, 1877–1878.
  "The Significance of Anatomical Anomalies," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XI, 1886.
  "Science or Bumblepuppy," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XII, 1887.
  "The Range of Variation of the Human Shoulder-Blade," The American Naturalist,  Vol. 21, No. 7, Jul., 1887.
  "Anatomy of the Contortionist," Scribner's, April 1889.
  "What Is Right-Handedness?," Scribner's, April 1891.
  "Observations on the Psoas Parvus and Pyramidalis. A Study of Variation," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society,  Vol. 31, No. 140, 1893.
  "Sir Richard Owen," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 28, 1892–1893.
  "Reminiscences of Dr. Holmes, as Professor of Anatomy," Scribner's, January 1895.
  "The Significance of Anomalies," The American Naturalist, Vol. 29, No. 338, 1895.
  "The Teaching of Anatomy," Science, New Series, Vol. 4, No. 83, 1896.
  "Anatomy Laws versus Body Snatching," The Forum, December 1896.
  "Mutations," Science, New Series, Vol. 21, No. 536, 1905.
caption: Man standing in a pose close to Durvasasana, an asana in hatha yoga. Figure 12 in Dwight's "The Anatomy of a Contortionist", 1889
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