David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. (15 June 1777 – 4 December 1841) was a Britishphysician.
BornDavid Davies inLlandyfaelog inWales, he received hisM.D. from theUniversity of Glasgow in 1801.[1] He set up his practice as a physician in Sheffield, living inParadise Square from 1803 to 1812.[2] In 1806 he translatedPhilippe Pinel's influential bookTraité médico-philosophique sur l'aleniation mentale; ou la manie with the English titleTreatise on Insanity.[3] He then settled in London, and in 1813 was elected to the office of physician accoucher at theQueen Charlotte Lying-in Hospital.[4] In this role, he was in attendance to theDuchess of Kent when she gave birth to the futureQueen Victoria in 1819. In 1827, he was elected as the first professor in Midwifery at theUniversity of London. In his study ofobstetrics, Davis sought to improve the design of instruments used to assist childbirth and published widely on the subject, including his 1825Elements of operative Midwifery and 1836The principles and practice of obstetric medicine in a series of systematic dissertations on the diseases of women and children.[5]
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