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 John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson.

Date:
1892
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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. [THK LAST ISSUED DUKING Mil, JIII/I'On’h LIlfBTIME.] The First Edition of those Lectures was published, soon after their dolivory,* at tlio express request of some who had road them as they appeared at intervals in tho weekly journals, and by many others who desired to have them gathered into a separate form. The First Edition, in which I had tho 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 was my intention at that time to have enlarged the volume by additional matter derived from other and different surgical diseases, but all having tho same purpose in view—namely, to show how largely we are indebted for our professional success in surgical practice to tho recuperative power of Nature, especially when helpod by the suggestions of a thoughtful surgeon. But, on carefully scrutinising tho materials, I foresaw what appoarod to bo insuperable difficulties; and since then, from one cause or another, I have allowod tho roappear- * At the Royal College of .Surgeons of England, 1800,1801, and 1802. a 2