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See also:HILTON, See also:JOHN (1804–1878) , See also:British surgeon, was See also:born at See also:Castle Hedingham, in See also:Essex, in 1804. He entered See also:Guy's See also:Hospital in 1824. He was appointed demonstrator of See also:anatomy in 1828, assistant-surgeon in 1845, surgeon 1849. 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. 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. He was also surgeon-extraordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria. 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 John, It was he who, with See also:Joseph Towne the artist, enriched Guy's Hospital with its unique collection of See also:models. 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. As an operator he was more cautious than brilliant. 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. 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. He died at Clapham on the 14th of See also:September 1878.
End of Article: HILTON, JOHN (1804–1878)
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