See also:JOHN See also:HILTON (1804–1878)
, See also:British surgeon, was See also:born at See also:Castle Hedingham, in See also:Essex, in 1804
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He entered See also:Guy's See also:Hospital in 1824
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He was appointed demonstrator of See also:anatomy in 1828, assistant-surgeon in 1845, surgeon 1849
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In 1867 he was See also:president of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, of which he became member in 1827 and See also:fellow in 1843, and he also delivered the Hunterian oration in 1867
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As See also:Arris and See also:Gale See also:professor (1859–1862) he delivered a course of lectures on " See also:Rest and See also:Pain," which have become See also:classics
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He was also surgeon-extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria
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See also:Hilton was the greatest anatomist of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and was nick named " Anatomical See also:John, It was he who, with See also:Joseph Towne the artist, enriched Guy's Hospital with its unique collection of See also:models
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In his grasp of the structure and functions of the See also:brain and
See also:spinal See also:cord he was far in advance of his contemporaries
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As an operator he was more cautious than brilliant
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This was doubtless due partly to his living in the pre-anaesthetics See also:period, and partly to his own consummate anatomical knowledge, as is indicated by the method for opening deep abscesses which is known by his name
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But he could be bold when necessary; he was the first to reduce a See also:case of obturator See also:hernia by abdominal See also:section, and one of the first to practise lumbar colostomy
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He died at Clapham on the 14th of See also:September 1878
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