An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq. F.R.S. surgeon extraordinary to the King and to his Majesty's household, and senior surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

  • Earle, James, Sir, 1755-1817.
Date:
1799
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Credit: An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq. F.R.S. surgeon extraordinary to the King and to his Majesty's household, and senior surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prevented, and cures effected by thefe means; but as the progrefs of them was in general fimilar to the two cafes already mentioned, it does not appear to be neceffary to add to their teftimony. I mall however take notice of one which occurred very lately.—A gentleman was much fcalded by the overturning of a tea-urn. I faw him foon after the accident, and fent to the neareft confectioners for ice, with which the burnt parts were bathed; the heat and pain were foon leflened, and afterwards he felt very little inconvenience. And I cannot pafs over another unhappy cafe of a poor woman, who, in a fit, fell into the fire. The injury extended over the whole of the neck, back and breafts, in fliort nearly half of the body was fcorched, and there was one continued burn* which made a furface, by meafurement, of more than four hundred inches. A confiderable time had elapfed after G the