Excerpt from Dickson on Pain and Death: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered Before the Medical Class of Jefferson College, Philadelphia, October 13th, 1859 Yet we are not always, it must be clearly stated, to evade the application of painful remedies. Some of these are among our most efficient and useful means of ultimate relief and beneficent influence. They are also very powerful and prompt though indirect anaesthetics. A blister sometimes soothes a patient into a sweet sleep by diverting a local dea termination previously painful; and I have seen both neural= git and inflammatory agony so suddenly and perfectly res moved by acupuncture that the patient fainted at once from - what he himself termed - absolute and positive pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.