of Surgeons, the accomplished author has set himself to establish
the principles that rest is the most important therapeutic agent in the cure of accidents and surgical diseases, and that every pain has its distinct and pregnant signification. First he points out the contrivances by which rest is secured to the different bodily organs when in health ; then the efforts which nature makes to secure it on the occurrence of accident or disease, and lastly the appliances for obtaining rest which
are in tho power of the professional man. It is in this last part of his subject that the author is enabled to profit by the profound knowledge
of nervous anatomy for which he is famous. Pain is his guide to :le seat of disease, and the unprofessional reader learns with astonishment how remote the apparent locality of the pain may be from its cause. The work will be recommended to the medical profession not only by the author's reputation, but by the notoriety which his views justly obtained at the time of their publication by word of mouth.
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