Rest and pain : a course of lectures on the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical disease and the diagnostic value of pain / by John Hilton ; edited by W.H.A. Jacobson.

  • Hilton, John, 1804-1878.
Date:
1887
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    ON THE THERAPEUTIC INFLUENCE OF REST AKD THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF PAIN IN ACCIDENTS AND SUEGICAL DISEASES. LECTUEE I. THE raPLUENCE OF NATUEAL THEEAPEUTICS—KEST THE CHIEF NATUEAL THERAPEUTIC—OBJECT OF PAIN—EEST THE FOSTEREK OF EEPAIR— BEST NECESSARY FOR THE HEALTHY ACTION OF ANY ORGAN—MEANS ADOPTED BY NATURE TO SECURE A STATE OF QUIESCENCE TO THE VARIOUS VISCERA. Mr. Peesident and G-entlemen,—There are duties whicli are difficult of fulfilment pertaining to every position in life; and there are duties attached to public professional life, from which no man can assume to himself the right to shrink, with whatever diffidence and feeling of incapacity they may he undertaken. In this duteous but self-mis- trustful spirit I have ventured to accept, at the request of my colleagues in the Council of this College, this Profse- sorial appointment—this, in my estimation, highly honour- able appointment—the requirements of which I must now proceed to carry out as best I can. To this end it is desirable to set out with a clear conception of its objects and intentions. I conceive that the institution of these lectures was based—firstly, on the wise recognition of the fact, that there is much in surgery which cannot be B