Dr Thomas Denman | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:ThomasDenmanDoctor.jpg) portrait by William Skelton | |
| Born | 1733[1] Bakewell, Derbyshire, England |
| Died | 1815 (aged 81–82)[1] London, England |
| Education | Bakewell grammar school |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Parent | John |
Thomas Denman, the elder, M.D. (1733–1815) was an English physician. He was the second son of John Denman (or Thomas[2]), an apothecary born at Bakewell, Derbyshire, on 27 June 1733. After a career in naval medicine he made a considerable amount of money in midwifery. The phenomenon of Denman's spontaneous evolution, by which a spontaneous impaction of the shoulder of a foetus resolves a difficult transverse delivery during childbirth, is named after him.[3] He used his authority to support inducing premature labour in cases of narrow pelvis and other conditions in England (where the mother's life is imperiled by delivery at the full-time).[1]
- ^ a b c Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain
- ^ History of the Village of Stoney Middleton By Thomas E. Cowen (1910) Archived 6 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine accessed 14 November 2007
- ^ online medical dictionary[permanent dead link] accessed 20 November 2007