A study of burns, with a plea for their more rational treatment / by Frederic Griffith.

  • Griffith, Frederic.
Date:
1902
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Credit: A study of burns, with a plea for their more rational treatment / by Frederic Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Lime splashes in the eye should be treated by dropping water acidulated with vinegar into the conjunctival sac. Copious irrigation by means of a strong force of water is often tbe best rem- edy. Particles should be removed with the moistened end of a handkerchief or a wisp of cot- ton twisted on the end of a match stick. The treatment of burns due to the action of electricity in the production of the X-ray calls for absolute rest of the part and drugs to over- come pain, as shown by the case reported by Orleman. The burn took the form of an ulcer which refused to heal for ten months in spite of many forms of treatment, and was finally determined to be a trophic neuritis. A case has been noted in an English medical journal, which came to coroner’s inquest alleging death from Roentgen-ray photography. A woman suffering from fracture of the thigh-bone in March, 1900, was exposed upon the sixth of April to X-ray ex- amination for two hours and twenty days later to a like exposure lasting two hours and ten min- utes. '‘The latter exposure was followed by in- flammation, and, so far as can be gathered from the newspaper reports, by ulceration of the ab- dominal walls.” The woman became mentally unbalanced and death followed. The sun’s rays may cause burns of the first degree of severity. If attended to at once be- fore vesication has taken place I know of no better remedy than that of Dr. Wood, as follows: I> Vinegar or dilute acetic acid, fl. oz, j. Glycerin fl. oz. j. Bismuth subnitrate, q. s. ad to paste. Sig. Apply to burned parts. Where vesication has taken place the treat- ment is the same as for other burns. F. Mulig reports two cases of systemic poison- ing following the use of bismuth subnitrate as an
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