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 / delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 by John Hilton.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
Date:
1879
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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 / delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 by John Hilton. 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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    CONTENTS. LECTURE I. PAOK The Influence of Natural Therapeutics—Rest the Chief Natural Therapeutic— 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 Quies- cence 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 Accom- panying Internal Hydrocephalus. 12 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 of Allowing Nature Rest to Restore Injured Parts 25 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 Sympathetic Pain—Disease of the Vertebras Indicated by Pain over the Lower Part of the Abdomen and Pubes—Knowledge of the Accurate Distribution of the Various Nerves to the Head and Ear, Leading to a Diagnosis 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. 38 LECTURE V. Symmetrical Superficial Pains Indicate a Central, or Bilateral and Unilateral Pains a One-Sided, Cause—Cases of Diseased Spine with Symmetrical Abdom- inal Pains—With Pain on the Back of the Head—Pain over the Left Shoul- der and in Left Arm—With Loss of Power and Sensation in the Limbs—With Impending Death from Pressure on Spinal Marrow Cured by Rest—Fatal Cases—Portions of Atlas and Axis Expelled by Post-Pharyngeal Abscess— Anchylosis of both Temporo-Maxillary Articulations—Patient Surviving Four- teen Years after Injury to the Cervical Vertebras Producing Paralysis of Up- per and Lower Extremities 51