The nature and significance of pain considered in its physiological aspect : An introductory address delivered at St. George's Hospital, on 3rd October, 1887 / Published by request.

  • Dent, C. T. (Clinton Thomas), 1850-1912.
Date:
1887
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Credit: The nature and significance of pain considered in its physiological aspect : An introductory address delivered at St. George's Hospital, on 3rd October, 1887 / Published by request. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    cured, at a shilling a day, if there were adequate hospital accommodation and means to buy health for the poor. Give us the shillings. So might be alleviated or removed a vast amount of preventable pain. There is a huge dead weight of it in this world. Let each one who has the proper restlessness of health and the energy of a sympathetic mind shove against it, and it will yield, if ever so little. There is ample room for more workers, and so I rejoice to meet the band of recruits who enlist to-day in this work. My address is done. We have been sailing hitherto in waters in which currents and counter- currents of opinion have often raised the sea of controversy; and with relief may I now glide into the smoother channels of convention- ality. As it was my pleasure at the outset to welcome you at your coming, so is it now my privilege as we part, each to take up his share of the work of a new session, to give you God-speed on your journey. I trust that you will not hold me guilty of striking a false note at this, the very outset. To steer between a didactic lecture on the one hand, and mere philosophical babble on the other, is no easy task. I have led you deliberately into some- what speculative fields of thought, believing