A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1851
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Credit: A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton. 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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    CG. Norman, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the United Hospital, Bath. \W. B. Page, Esq., Surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary. ,\. Partridge, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, Colchester. Thomas Pope, Esq., Cleobury Mortimer, Salop. JJ. M. Robinson, Esq., Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. tEdward Ross, Esq., House Surgeon to the West Herts Infirmary. J J. S. Sharp, Esq., Warrington. .Samuel G. Sloman, Esq., Farnham, Surrey. FRober^raith, Esq., Ph. D. Professional Chemist, Manchester. ER. Snape, Esq., Surgeon to Bolton Dispensary. EEdward Stanley, Esq., F.R.S., President of Royal College of Surgeons of England. JJ. C. Steele, Esq., Superintendent of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. JJoseph Stone, Esq., late House Surgeon to the Ancoats Dispensary, Manchester, William Strange, M.D., Bridgnorth, Salop. ■^W. Sweeting, Esq., Abbotsbury, Dorchester. IThomas Sympson, Esq., House Surgeon to the Lincoln County Hospital. Towers, Esq., Hertford. J John Thompson, M.D., Surgeon to the Whitehaven Infirmary and Fever Hospital. ] Professor Warren, Boston, United States. J James Whitehead, Esq., Surgeon to the Manchester Lying-in Hospital. ,A. Wood, Esq., Rochdale. It was not expected by me that this inquiry would elicit a series of papers containing entirely new views on the subject under I consideration, nor would any one look for such a result from it, if he considered how difficult it is to throw fresh light upon practical subjects. The real object of the inquiry was to try to ascertain which of the numerous plans of treating burns, recom- mended in systematic treatises, are adopted by the profession, and what are the prevailing opinions respecting their value. The knowledge that is needed most is not what has been recommended in a given disease, but what has been found to answer, and is adopted in practice. The materials placed at my disposal consti- tute a mass of practical information of very great value. The gentlemen who have contributed it, have probably possessed more opportunities of witnessing examples of burns than will be readily believed by those surgeons who are ignorant of the frequency and severity of these accidents in some districts of England. Mr. Farr does not think that the deaths from burns and scalds in the United Kingdom can be less than 4,000 per annum. In the large manufacturing towns children are frequently burnt to death during the absence of their parents at work. In coal districts explosions frequently take place, and the surgeons attending the B 2