Abstract

John Eric Erichsen, who lived from 1818 to 1896, was a professor of surgery at University College Hospital, London. textbook for which he was best known, The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations, was published in its first edition in 1873. His lectures On Railway and Other Injuries of the Nervous System were published in 1866, and are considered seminal in the development of psychoneuroses' present day concepts. This article reprints these lectures, which describe and discuss cases of post-injury psychoneuroses development. A biographical sketch of Erichsen is included with the article.

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