Remarks on burns and scalds, chiefly in reference to the principle of treatment at the time of their infliction. Suggested by a perusal of the last edition of 'An essay on burns', by Edward Kentish, M.D. ... / By Nodes Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, Nodes, 1776-1855
Date:
1818
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Credit: Remarks on burns and scalds, chiefly in reference to the principle of treatment at the time of their infliction. Suggested by a perusal of the last edition of 'An essay on burns', by Edward Kentish, M.D. ... / By Nodes Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proof of the propriety of resorting to the em¬ ployment of anodynes and a moderate mea¬ sure of stimulation in examples of such seve¬ rity as these cases afford. But if this mode¬ rate degree of internal stimulus (gin and water, occasionally repeated, with the addi¬ tion of an anodyne, and in the last case, one dose of the anodyne only) was found suffi¬ cient where the circumstances of the injury appear to have been particularly urgent; in what manner can such cases be regarded con¬ firmatory of the theory which extends the rule of violent stimulation through the whole circle of diseased actions in Bum and Scald, not alone when exhaustion has supervened to excessive action, but in those lesser degrees of injury 64 where the action of parts is alone increased 1” In considering from the evidence adduced, the extent to which Dr. Kentish's rule of practice was carried in conformity to the tenets of the theory; ] am led to remark, that the cases last adverted to, appear to have been, generally, of great severity from the detail of symptoms: most of them occurring to young colliers or miners, very probably.