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
Date:
[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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    bE Ros] In infants, for whom bleeding is lefs proper, arevulfion muft be procured by repeated purg- ings; for the reft, as in other fevere wounds and inflammations, great attention ought to be paid to the diet ; the thinneft drinks and ptifans ought to be ufed; for-every thing which is heating or taken immoderately, is ufually fatal, by*increafing the heat and pain; but nothing is more efficacious in cooling the heat of burns than the directions of the famous Sir Kenelm Digby, ‘to give ten or‘ twelve drops of fpirit of falt every now and then, either by itfelf or dropped into other drinks.” Heifter feems evidently, from his obfervations, to lean very decidedly to the ufe of aftringents : the ufe of fpirits externally, of oil, of turpentine, of hot water, and of applying the part to a candle or fire, will come more readily under the denomi- nation of fimulants. But what can we fuppofe when this very man, with all his acutenefs, recom- B 2 mends ‘fuimus. In infantibus autem quia minus apta fanguinis miffio videtur, revellendi caufa iteranda potius alvi expurgatioeft. De- ~cetero ut in vulnerationibus atque inflammationibus gravioribus reliquis, fic in ambuftionibus quoque folertiffimam victus ratio- nem obfervare convenit. Igitur imprimis adhibenda hic funt po- tiones, ac forbitiones quam maxime tenues. Quicquid enim aut ex caleficientibus, aut intemperanter affumitur, quia calorem, ac dolores adauget, pefilentifimum effe confuevit. Sed nihil tamen ad calo- rem ambuftionibus ortum attemperandum valeatius quicquam ce- leberrimo Dygbzo vifum legimus, quam falis quidem /piritum . ad x vel xv guttulas identidem egro vel feorfim ingeftum, vel po- tionibus inftillatuum.—Heifert Inf. Chirurg. tom. 1%, p» 330~ 333-