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, 1888Tension, 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 e¿usion of in¿ammatory ¿uids. 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.