Richard Davies M.D. (died 1761) was an English physician.

Life

Davies was a native of

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. On 19 August 1726 he entered

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as a pensioner, where his relation, John Davies was president. There he became a fellow, proceeding B.A. in 1730, M.A. in 1734, and M.D. in 1748. Davies practised as a physician at

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, and then at

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, where he died at the beginning of 1762. Elected a fellow of the

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on 8 June 1738, he withdrew two years later. His will, bearing date 11 December 1743, was proved on 6 March 1762 by his widow, Jane.

Works

Davies was the author of: * ''The General State of Education in the Universities: with a particular view to the philosophic and medical education: set forth in an epistle to … Doctor Hales, …, being introductory to essays on the blood'', Bath, 1759. Anonymous ''Observations'' in reply appeared the same year. * ''To promote the experimental Analysis of the Human Blood. Essay the first'' (no more published), Bath, 1760. He published a dissertation, ''Tables of Specific Gravities, with Observations'', in vol. xlv. of the ''

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'', pp. 416–89.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Richard Year of birth missing 1761 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society