Injury to flesh or skin, often caused by excessive heat

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A sovereign remedy.

Parietaria diffusa (Pellitory-of-the-wall)

Calvert's Carbolic Ointment : preserve your teeth by using Calvert's Carbolic Tooth Powder.

A soverign remedy.

'Tannafax' brand tannic acid jelly : tannic acid, with 0.5 per cent. phenol, in a water-soluble base : the modern treatment of burns and scalds : always ready for immediate application / Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.).

First aid memory chart : designed for A.R.P. first aid workers & learners / by Harold E. Palmer, D. Litt. & W. Rougier Chapman, Surgeon Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R. ; approved by the St. John Ambulance Association.

Skin cells from a scald

A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

Instructions for rendering immediate aid : for troops at the front / drafted and designed by Major MacLure.

The surgical treatment of burns : a clinical report of 789 cases / by Tord Skoog.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn.

A masquerade in which King Charles VI of France and some others, dressed as wildmen in shaggy costumes, are nearly burned to death by accident. Aquatint by J. Harris after J. Froissart.

A chemical cottage / by W.S. Tait.

The Know-How family : the story of the usefulness of soda.

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Burns

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Images about Burns

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The surgical treatment of burns : a clinical report of 789 cases / by Tord Skoog.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn.

A masquerade in which King Charles VI of France and some others, dressed as wildmen in shaggy costumes, are nearly burned to death by accident. Aquatint by J. Harris after J. Froissart.

A chemical cottage / by W.S. Tait.

The Know-How family : the story of the usefulness of soda.

Burns

Images from the collections

Images about Burns

Works from the collections

The surgical treatment of burns : a clinical report of 789 cases / by Tord Skoog.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de ambustionibus et de combustione spontanea complectens ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Georgius Kincaid Pitcairn.

A masquerade in which King Charles VI of France and some others, dressed as wildmen in shaggy costumes, are nearly burned to death by accident. Aquatint by J. Harris after J. Froissart.

A chemical cottage / by W.S. Tait.

The Know-How family : the story of the usefulness of soda.

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