For the hadcliffe Library From the truthon THE HUNTERIAN ORATION, PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES, AND PATHOLOGICAL & SURGICAL WRITINGS: BY CÆSAR H. HAWKINS, F.R.S., SERJEANT-SURGEON TO THE QUEEN, CONSULTING SURGEON TO ST. GEORGE'S IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. London: PRINTED BY W. J. & S. GOLBOURN, PRINCES STREET, COVENTRY ST. W. 1874. PREFAC E. THESE Volumes consist of a collection of miscellaneous writings, for the most part scattered through the Transactions of Medical Societies, and the Medical periodical Journals, and relating chiefly to a considerable number of pathological and practical subjects. As their publication commenced so long ago as the year 1828, it is obvious that the Author's subsequent experience and investigations, and the more recent researches of other persons, must have modified and corrected a large portion of his pathological views and clinical doctrines, and of the practice recommended when the papers were written. The Author has sometimes thought of revising and adding to some of the lectures and observations by the light of more recent discovery, and of thus combining modern experience with the results of what he has himself witnessed during many years of hospital and private practice. But he has always been deterred from such an undertaking by the consideration, not only that it would be too laborious, but that it would be so imperfect and entangled a method of treating so great a number of subjects, as to necessitate a complete re-writing of the greater part of the papers here brought together. The reader is therefore requested to observe the date of the publication of each paper, and to accept the work as a simple record of the Author's contributions to pathology and surgery of such knowledge as he possessed when each was written; not as a description in every particular of his present views, nor of what he would recommend in detail for practice at the present time. Nevertheless, he is not without some hope that in endeavouring from time to time to lay the results of his experience before his pupils and his professional fellow-workers, his labours may have been in their time not wholly without their use, though much of what he has written may now belong to the past. The history of the past, however, has some value in science. as in other subjects, and as the collection of his writings has not been without interest to the Author himself, as showing the successive steps by which progress has been made, and the singular changes which practice has undergone, (greatest of all, perhaps, in respect to the use of bleeding in accident and disease,) he has yielded to the suggestions offered to him by some of his friends, that others also may feel some portion of this interest, if they are taken from the numerous volumes in which they are now scattered, and placed together in their present form. C. H. H. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. The HUNTERIAN ORATION, delivered before the ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, on February 14th, 1849 ANNUAL ADDRESS, delivered before the FELLOWS OF THE On the relative Claims of Sir Charles Bell and Majendie to the Discovery of the Functions of the Spinal Nerves, January 1869 . ANNUAL ADDRESS, delivered before the FELLOWS OF MEDICAL & CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, on March 2nd, 1857 Obituary-Rev. Dr. Buckland.-Dr. Warren, &c. Account of some Experiments on the use of Styptics in Hæmorrhage from Arteries. Read at the Medico-Chirurgical Society, January 24th, On the contagion of Small-pox after death, January 19th, 1829. p. 58 Account of some Experiments relating to the prevention and cure of Hydrophobia, and the Bites of Serpents. Read before the Royal College On the Diagnosis of Foreign Bodies in the Larynx. Read at the Medico- Chirurgical Society, February 11th, 1840. On Pus in the Lymphatic Vessels, and Receptaculum Chyli, October 31st, Case illustrative of the quantity of Fluid secreted in Ovarian Dropsy, Case of Stricture of the Colon successfully treated by operation, with an Analysis of 44 cases of Artificial Anus. Read at the Medico-Chirurgical |