An essay on burns, principally upon those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air ... from which an attempt is made to rescue this part of the healing art from empiricism / [Edward Kentish].

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
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[1797]
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Credit: An essay on burns, principally upon those which happen to workmen in mines from the explosions of inflammable air ... from which an attempt is made to rescue this part of the healing art from empiricism / [Edward Kentish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t 2] gangrene ;—the fourth fphacelus: Whence it is further evident that burns very nearly refemble in- flammations, and that each degree of them is marked by nearly the fame indications. “The refemblance of burns to inflammations is {hewn not only in the degrees, but in the me- thods of cure; ; for in cafes of the flight or firft de- gree, refolvent applications are by far the belt, fuch as we have directed in cafes of inflammation, (C. Il. No. 9 and feq.) of which two kinds are chiefly to be preferred, aftringents and emollients. Among the gentle aftringents, common fpirit, or rectified, or even camphorated {pirit of wine, may be reckoned, provided the injured parts be dipped into it, or be carefully bathed with rags moiften- ed ufqueosperierit. Tertius gradus gangrene, quartus autem {pha- celo non abfimiles videntur. Unde fimul iftudliquet; nempe am- dere, iifdemque propemodum fignis EMIRATES ipfarum gra- dum, dignofci. II, Quemadmodum autem in shies fic in ipfis quoque cu- randi viis haud abfimilis inlammationi combuftio deprehenditur. Quoties enim levior feu primi gradus ambuftio contigit, longe optima funt medicamenta refolventia, qualia quidem in phlegmone propofuimus. (Capt. II. No. ix. feq.) Quorum bina potifiimum genera funt: Adfringentium videlicet atque emollientium. Le- niter autem adftringunt /piritus vini, vel vulgaris bone note, vel redio