HILTON, JOHN (1804-1878), British surgeon, was born at Castle Hedingham, in Essex, in 1804. He entered Guy's hospital in 1824, and was connected with the hospital all his life. In 1867 he was president of the Royal College of Surgeons. As Arris and Gale professor (1859-62) he delivered a course of lectures on "Rest and Pain" (published 1863 ; 5th ed., edited by W. H. A. Jackson, 1892), which have become classics. He was surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria. Hilton was the greatest anato mist of his time, and was nicknamed "Anatomical John." It was he who, with Joseph Towne, the artist, enriched Guy's hospital with its unique collection of models. In his grasp of the structure and functions of the brain and spinal cord he was far in advance of his contemporaries. His anatomical knowledge is indicated by the method for opening deep abscesses which is known by his name, and he was the first to reduce a case of obturator hernia by abdominal section, and one of the first to practice lumbar colostomy. He died at Clapham on Sept. 14, 1878.