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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    —every part better ;—the left hand much easier, but the eranulations much looser than the right: they bleed more readily, and are more painful. “ Seventeenth day.—One leg quite skinned over; face and other leg much “beiter. es Twenty-first day. a face and neck quite skinned over, except a small part of each eye-lid, and the nose ;—right leg almost healed; —right hand skinned over above the wrist, to the ends of the fingers on the inside, and much better on the back part ;—left hand, to which the poultice had been so long applied, begins to grow better, but is far hehind the Other so as to give a most decided preference to the chalk. He is now so well that I have allowed him to go into his garden. “You see, my dear Sir, that IT have been tediously circumstantial in my account of this case. J] now deem my patient so near well, that I shall discontinue my journal; and I have only to add, that I have been so particular in the recital re the treatment, because perhaps you have no case which arn hee such a fair opportunity for comparing your method with others commonly used. The poor fellow had felt the old method with oil, &c. and was there- fore well enabled to appreciate the present plan, especially as he is a man of great reso- lution, and of strong natural sense. You have also had frequent opportunities of seeing him during the cure, and of convincing yourself of the truth of every circumstance. And I think the trouble you have had in rescuing this im- portant branch of practice from the rude hands which so long held it, will be wel! repaid, were It only with the roneclinns this case will give you. —Asa memento of my sense of the obligations