An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / James Earle.

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / James Earle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ( bladder, occupied the whole of the palm of the hand, and the infide of the thumb and fingers, and it increafed fo as to become glo- bular, and nearly of the fize of a hen’s egg. The opening or breaking of this was moft carefully avoided ; and ice was conftantly ap- plied to the whole hand, it being immerged, during the day, in a bafon of ice and ice-wa- ter, and at night wrapped in cloths, or co- vered with fcraped potatoes, foaked in it. Whenever this application was recent, the child was eafy and flept; but at intervals, as the hand grew hot, from the melting of the ice, he became reftlefs and cried until it I ; was renewed, when his deep was again compofed. This plan was continued during a week, at the end of which an abforption of the extravafed lymph took place, the cu- ticle which had been elevated, to fo great an extent* began to fhrink and fhrivel ; in a few days it became ragged and torn, arrd was taken