On the influences of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain : a course of lectures, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 / John Hilton.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
Date:
1863
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    CONTEN T S. LECTURE I. FAGE The Influence of Natural Therapeutics—Rest the chief Natural Thera- peutic—Object of Pain—Rest the Fosterer of Repair—Rest neces- sary 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 (hawing off all the Fluid—Clot of Blood giving a Cast of the Third and Fourth Ventricles and Intervening Spaces—Case of Oc- clusion of the Cerebro-spinal Opening accompanying Internal Hy- drocephalus • • • • • LECTURE III. Function of the Cerebro-spinal Fluid in the Fcetal Brain—Case of Occlusion of the Cerebro-spinal Aperture—The Brain after Con- cussion a Bruised Organ—Comparison between a Bruise of the Brain and that of other Organs—Long Rest essential after Con- cussion 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 per- formed for tlie Purpose of allowing Nature Rest to restore Injured Parts . . . •