A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1800
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Credit: A second essay on burns, in which an attempt is made to refute the opinions of Mr Earle and Sir W. Farquhar lately advanced on the supposed benefit of the application of ice in such accidents : with cases and communications confirming the principles and practice brought forward in a former essay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C *15 ] of thin matter pours from them. Finding the chalk agree fo well with the other parts, I fprinkled his right hand freely with it, and covered it with the cerate pladers. He felt, as lie faid, a little tingling from the application, and wilhed to have the poultice continued to the left hand. I was glad of the oppor- tunity of making this comparative trial, and allowed it to be fo. “ Twelfth day.—Head, neck, and legs much better ;—loins nearly healed. I fpeak within bounds, when I fay four fquare inches of Ikin have been beautifully formed on one leg fince yedeiday. I know no term which will give fo good an idea of - this procefs as icing over; the extent covered, and the fmooth Ihiny appearance being fo like an icy pellicle formed on a fmooth piece of water. “ fifteenth day.—Face and legs mending fad ;—loins well; —his hands completely raw, and bleeding from every point; the poultice on the left hand is deluged in thin matter, and this hand is by far the mod painful. The right hand covered with the chalk, although painful, is not nearly fo much fo as the left, and the man is anxious to have the chalk applied to it, which is allowed j—anodyne continued five grains of calomel at night, and a fmart purge to be taken early in the morning. ‘ Sixteenth day.—Has had two copious evacuations from the calomel and purging powder;—every part better-the left hand much eafier, but the granulations much loofer than the right ; they bleed more readily, and are more painful. Seventeenth day.—One leg quite Ikinned over ; face and other leg much better. Twenty-fird day—The face and neck quite flcinned over, except a fmall part of each eye-lid, and the nofe right leg almod healed right hand ikinned over from above the wrift to the ends of the fingers on the infide, and much better on the back part; —left hand, to which the poultice had been fo lona- appHed, begins to grow better, but is far behind the other, fo as