Excerpt from Therapeutic Means for the Relief of Pain: Being the Prize Essay for Which the Medical Society of London Awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal in 1874
Pleasure is the result of certain harmonious relations, of certain agree ments; Pain, on the Contrary, the effect of certain inharmonious relations, of certain disagreements. Pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unim peded exertion of a power of whose energy we are conscious Pain a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power. - sir william hamilton.
The subj eet proposed for this Essay is strictly Therapeutic, and the general tenor of my arguments and illustrations will be therapeutic too.
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