Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1328

DAVID DANIEL DAVIS (1777-1841) Elements of operative midwifery. Printed for Hurst, Robinson 1825 [7] 345 pp., 20 double plates. 26.7 cm.

Beginning as a general practitioner in Sheffield, Davis later went to London where he specialized in obstetrics and served as professor of midwifery at the University of London. He was physician-accoucheur at the birth of Queen Victoria in 1819 and was obstetric physician to University College Hospital from 1834 to 1841. A practical and ingenious obstetrician, he introduced five new varieties of forceps which he describes and illustrates in the present work. The Davis forceps was the favorite instrument of Charles D. Meigs (see No. 1487 ff.) who praised it highly in his Obstetrics, the science and the art (1849). The book contains twenty large lithographs depicting normal and abnormal fetal positions and deliveries, as well as a variety of obstetrical instruments including his new forceps.

See Related Record(s): 1487

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 435

Gift of John Martin, M.D.