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 / by the late John Hilton.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
Date:
1887
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Credit: 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 / by the late John Hilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. [the last issued DUKDfG ME. HILTON'S LIFETIME.] The First Edition of tliese Lectures was piiblislied, soon after tlieir delivery,* at tlie express request of some wlio liad read them as they appeared at intervals in the weekly journals, and by many others who desired to have them gathered into a separate form. The First Edition, in which I had the kindly and liberal help of my personal friends, Dr. Daldy and Mr. Durham, at that time Demonstrator of Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, was soon out of print. It Avas my intention at that time to have enlarged the volume by additional matter derived from other and different surgical diseases, but all having the same pur- pose in view—namely, to show how largely we are indebted for our professional success in surgical practice to the recuperative power of Nature, especially when helped by the suggestions of a thoughtful surgeon. But, on carefully scrutinising the materials, I foresaw what appeared to be insuperable difficulties; and since then, from one cause or another, I have allowed the reappear- * At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1800,18G1, and 1SG2. a 2