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David Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. (15 June 1777 – 4 December 1841) was a British
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. Born David Davies in Llandyfaelog in
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, he received his
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from the
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in 1801. He set up his practice as a physician in
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, living in Paradise Square from 1803 to 1812. In 1806 he translated
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's influential book ''Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aleniation mentale; ou la manie'' with the English title ''Treatise on Insanity''. He then settled in
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, and in 1813 was elected to the office of physician accoucher at the
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. In this role, he was in attendance to the
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when she gave birth to the future
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in 1819. In 1827, he was elected as the first professor in Midwifery at the
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. In his study of
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, Davis sought to improve the design of instruments used to assist childbirth and published widely on the subject, including his 1825 ''Elements of operative Midwifery'' and 1836 ''The principles and practice of obstetric medicine in a series of systematic dissertations on the diseases of women and children''.


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1777 births 1841 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors {{UK-med-bio-stub