Richard Manningham

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Sir Richard Manningham (* 1690 in Eversley , Hampshire , England , † 11 May 1759 in Chelsea ) was an English obstetrician .

Life

Manningham was the second son of Thomas Manningham and, like his older brother Thomas, was supposed to serve the Church. He was educated at Cambridge, which he left in 1717 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Doctor of Medicine (MD). He took up residence in London and practiced as an obstetrician. In 1720 he was accepted into the Royal Society . On February 8, 1721 he was commissioned by King George I to the Knights defeated.

Laurence Sterne immortalized him as Dr. Slop in his Tristram Shandy . He found his final resting place in Chelsea in 1759.

Obstetrics

Until modern times, obstetrics was a woman's only domain, and male obstetricians were a rarity. A pioneer in Europe was England, where the first maternity houses and schools for midwives and obstetricians were established in the 18th century and where Manningham was one of the pioneers.

Manningham initially continued the teaching of Hendrik van Deventer (1651-1724) and was considered a rival of James Douglas .

Publications

Manningham published a number of treatises including:

  • The Symptoms, Nature, Causes, and Cure of the Febricula
  • An Abstract of Midwifry
  • A Discourse Concerning the Plague and Pestilential Fevers

He was also implicated in the case of Mary Toft , and published in 1726

  • Exact Diary of what was observed during a close attendance upon Mary Toft the pretended Rabbit Breeder .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Isensee: The history of medicine. Volume 2, part 2. Verlag Albert Nauck & Comp., 1844. S. 1152 ff.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Manningham, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Eversley , Hampshire , England
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1759
Place of death Chelsea