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Braxton Hicks, 1872

John Braxton Hicks (23 February 1823 – 28 August 1897) was a 19th century English doctor who specialised in obstetrics.

He was born to Edward Hicks in Rye, Sussex. He was educated privately and in 1841 entered Guy's Hospital Medical School. He obtained his MB at London University in 1845 and an MD in 1851 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1866. [1]

In 1856 he was appointed assistant obstetric physician at Guy's Hospital and full physician in 1868. In 1888 he became obstetric physician at St Mary's Hospital, London. Hicks was the first physician to describe the bipolar and other methods of the version of a fetus. In 1872, he described the uterine contractions not resulting in childbirth now known as Braxton Hicks contractions.

In 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society by virtue of his interest in Natural History, about which he wrote numerous papers.[2] He was elected president of the Hunterian Society in 1879.

References

  1. ^ "Proceedings of the Linnaean Society" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |assessdate= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 October 2010.

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