At Cambridge he was examiner for medical degrees and assessor to the regius professor of physic.
[2] Davies lived in Finsbury Square, London, was physician to the Bank of England, and had a considerable practice.
Besides papers in the London Hospital Reports and in the Transactions of the Pathological Society, he published a manual Lectures on the Physical Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, London, 1851, which reached a second edition in 1854, and was translated into German and Dutch; and On the Treatment of Rheumatic Fever in its Acute Stage, exclusively by free Blistering, London, 1864.
Papers on the form and areas of the heart's orifices are in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1870 and 1872.
They had seven children, and his second son Arthur T. Davies graduated in medicine at Cambridge and became a physician.