Excerpt from Hunterian Lectures on Tension, as Met With in Surgical Practice: Inflammation of Bone and on Cranial and Intracranial Injuries; Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, June, 1888 Tension; and should I fail to make it sufficiently attractive, I have confidence that it will prove sugges tive and tend towards some practical good. During the last few years the word tension has been freely used by both physicians and surgeons, although it has not been always employed with the same mean ing. In my own student days it was rarely, if ever, heard; indeed, in a surgical point of view it had then but little significance. At the present time, however, we read and hear of it in many senses. The physician talks to us of arterial and muscular tension, and all admit that the word, as thus applied, carries with it deep meaning. The surgeon uses the term as applied to the pressure brought about by the distension or stretching of tissues by cystic or solid growths, by the extravasation of blood, and more particularly by what is far more common - the eflusion of inflammatory fluids. I propose, there fore, in the following lecture, to invite your atten tion to these different causes of tension, and to trace their effects. I shall do this from the clinical point of view, under the conviction that some practical good may be derived from a full consideration of the subject, and with the hope that some light may thus be thrown upon the diagnosis and treatment of surgical disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Hunterian Lectures on Tension, as Met With in Surgical Practice: Inflammation of Bone and on Cranial and Intracranial Injuries; Delivered Before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, June, 1888 Mr. President and Gentlemen, - When, through the kindness of my colleagues in the Council of this College, I was invited to accept the responsible position of Professor of Surgery and Pathology in this honoured Institution, I acceded to their request as a matter of duty, although with much diffidence, as I felt mistrustful of my power to bring before an audience, such as is wont to meet in this theatre, either material of sufficient importance to excite their interest, or to place it before them in a way sufficiently attractive to satisfy their critical requirements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), comparative anatomist, colleague and later antagonist of Darwin, and head of the British Museum of Natural History, was a major figure in Victorian science. Yet historians of science have found Owen a difficult subject, in part because he chose not to expound his views in a major theoretical work but rather presented them through annual lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1837 to 1856. Nevertheless, Owen's views on the nature of life, the relations of form and function, the meaning of fossils, and the development of species gave his contemporaries such as Lyell, Grant, Huxley, Whewell, and Darwin a set of positions with which they could agree or disagree while developing their own views. Now, for the first time, modern readers how access to the opening series of Owen's Hunterian Lectures, in which he set out the larger framework of the theoretical reflections that occupied him during the next nineteen years. Presented to the public in the two months before Darwin began his first notebook on the species question, these lectures reveal the nature of the synthesis of French, German, and British biology taking place in metropolitan London in this crucial period in nineteenth-century life science. Phillip Reid Sloan has transcribed and edited the seven surviving lectures and has written an introduction and commentary situating the work in the context of Owen's life and the scientific and intellectual life of the time. Sloan pays particular attention to Owen's early relations to the German scientific and philosophical tradition, and in this respect contributes to an understanding of the relations between science and British Romanticism. In the lectures, Owen surveys the history of comparative anatomy up to his time and develops his views on the nature of life, species duration, physiological function, and the relation between embryology and classification. One can see the degree to which transcendental anatomy and the views of Von Baer, Johannes Müller, E. G. St.-Hilaire, and Cuvier were current in London in the late 1830s. -- from back cover.