John Braxton Hicks

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Braxton Hicks, 1881

John Braxton Hicks

FLS[1] (23 February 1823 – 28 August 1897) was a 19th-century English medical doctor who specialised in obstetrics
.

He was born to Edward Hicks in

Guy's Hospital Medical School. He obtained his MB at the University of London in 1845 and an MD in 1851. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1866.[2]

In 1856 he was appointed assistant obstetric physician at

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.[3] He gave the Hunterian Oration to the Hunterian Society in 1868 and was elected their president for 1879.[4]

Braxton Hicks is buried at St Thomas Church, Lymington, Hampshire. For a while, an obstetric ward at St Thomas' Hospital was named after him; Braxton Hicks ward is now closed.

He was the father of coroner Athelstan Braxton Hicks (b 1854).

References

  1. ISBN 9780850668438
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  2. ^ "Proceedings of the Linnaean Society" (PDF). Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 1 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Presidents of the Society and Orators, 1826–1906" (PDF). Hunterian Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2012.

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