On rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain / Ed. by W.H.A. Jacobson.

  • John Hilton
Date:
1891
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Credit: On rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain / Ed. by W.H.A. Jacobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CONTEXTS. LECTURE I. PAGE. The Influence of Natural Therapeutics—Rest the Chief Natural Thera- peutic—Object of Pain—Rest the Fosterer of Repair—Rest Necessary for the Healthy Action of Any Organ—Means Adopted by Nature to Secure a State of Quiescence to the Various Viscera . 1 LECTURE II. ' Distribution of the Dura Mater—External and Internal Arachnoid in the Cranium and Vertebral Canal—Physiology of the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid—Relation of Spina Bifida to the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid—Danger of Drawing Off all the Fluid—Clot of Blood giving a Cast of the Third and Fourth Ventricles and Intervening Spaces—Case of Occlusion of the Cerebro-Spinal Opening Accompanying Internal Hydrocephalus... 19 LECTURE III. Function of the Cerebro-Spinal Fluid in the Foetal Brain—Case of Occlusion of the Cerebro-Spinal Aperture—The Brain after Concussion a Bruised Organ—Comparison between a Bruise of the Brain and that of other Organs—Long Rest Essential after Concussion of the Brain—Neglect of this a Fertile Cause of Permanent Brain Disease— Symptoms of Concussion of the Spinal Cord and Treatment by Rest- Most of the Graver Operations of Surgery performed for the Purpose LECTURE IV. Coagulable Lymph a Means for Securing Rest to Inflamed Serous and Mucous Membranes—Pain with Increase of Temperature a Sign of Inflammation in the part where it is felt—Diagnostic Value of Sympa- thetic Pain—Disease of the Vertebras indicated by Pain over the Lower Part of the Abdomen and Pubes—Knowledge of the Accurate Distri- bution of the VariousNerves to the Head and Ear, Leading to a Diag- nosis of the Distant Diseased Organs Causing Sympathetic Pain in those Parts—Pain Between the Shoulders an Indication of Visceral Disease—Pain Over the Stomach in the Region of the Cutaneous Dis- tribution of the Sixth and Seventh Dorsal Nerves a Sign of Vertebral Disease 65
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