An essay on burns, in two parts; principally on those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of carburetted hydrogen gas; containing also a view of the opinions of ancient and modern authors upon the treatment of accidents by fire; and including a variety of cases conducted upon different principles ... / [Edward Kentish].

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1817
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Credit: An essay on burns, in two parts; principally on those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of carburetted hydrogen gas; containing also a view of the opinions of ancient and modern authors upon the treatment of accidents by fire; and including a variety of cases conducted upon different principles ... / [Edward Kentish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    «Sir, My practice in collieries has not yet afforded me an opportunity of adopting your plan of applying stimulants in any desperate cases of burns; but in the slighter or superficial cases of burns, I have found them act like a charm. am informed that the practice of immersing the part in cold water for the space of twelve or fourteen hours after the accident, is in general use in Edinburgh. As both the olewmn terebin- thine and cold water were used at the same time, but on different parts, in the case of Mrs. Kent (which I formerly named to you) I shall give you some particulars of the case. “Tam, Sir ] bd ‘“ Your obedient servant, “ JOHN ANDERSON. — “ Newcastle, Sept. 8, 1798.” CASE. “ A Lady, in endeavouring to remove a pan from the fire which contained boiling fat, had the misfortune to receive some of it on her right arm and face. Isaw her afew minutes after the accident, about nine o’clock in the morning: she was sitting on the floor, and her arm was immersed in a pail of cold water ; her face was flushed and appeared much scalded, and she complained of great heat and pain in it. I immediately applied the olewm terebin- thine to it, and continued it for a few minutes. She said that her arm was so much relieved by