John Hilton Walker

John Hilton, 1805–1878

This Classic article is a reprint of the original work by John Hilton, On Rest and Pain: Lecture XIV. An accompanying biographical sketch on John Hilton, MD, is available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0927-2 . The Classic Article is reprinted with courtesy from Hilton J. On The Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Val...

Professor John Hilton

Professor John Hilton j0u sudcten death on August 28th, 1943, of Professor Cou ton means a grievous loss to the National mitt0011 ^0r Cental Hygiene of whose Executive Comyea e? he had been a member since 1939. This was the f0r r ln, which Professor Hilton made a broadcast appeal Wii h lic financial support of the Council's work, for pCn the Association has reason to be especially grateful, rig...

John Walker Barber-Lomax

John Walker Barber-Lomax, always known to family and friends alike as Jack, and to colleagues as B-L, died on 13 April. He was born on 4 December 1914, near Bolton, Lancashire. After Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge, he proceeded to St Thomas' Hospital for a medical training but changed course and went up to the Liverpool veterinary school where he took the Golding prize in veterinary ...

Blast Xiii Meeting Hilton

On a conjecture of Hilton

We show that if AI, A 2 ," " Ak are collections of distinct subsets from an n-element set such that these collections are incomparable and uncomplemented, then 2::7=1 IAI :::; 2 1 under certain conditions. Upper bounds are also given for 2::7=1 lAd with or without the "uncomplemented" condition.