<P> In 1856 he was appointed assistant obstetric physician at Guy's Hospital and full physician in 1868 . In 1888 he became obstetric physician at St Mary's Hospital, London . Hicks was the first physician to describe the bipolar and other methods of the version of a fetus . In 1872, he described the uterine contractions not resulting in childbirth now known as Braxton Hicks contractions . </P> <P> 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 . He gave the Hunterian Oration to the Hunterian Society in 1868 and was elected their president for 1879 . </P> <P> Buried at St Thomas Church, Lymington, Hampshire . </P>

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