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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    practice, and to prove the discordance and uncer- tainty prevailing in the treatment ot Bums. I am led, however, to consider the above men- tioned applications, as being productive oi beneficial effects by the action of a common principle; and that they have failed in their curative power, only, in such accidents as by their greater violence were not ame- nable to the same common principle. The entire change induced in the nature of the morbid state by the greater degree of injury inflicted, demanding on these occasions an entirely different plan of manage- ment. See Medical and Physical Journal, v. 17, p. 1. \ Besides the diversity of applications ad- verted to above, some others have received the sanction of medical opinion; the nature of whose remedial operation, may be consi- dered less susceptible of elucidation. Thus it has been advised to expose the burnt part to the fire, “ and to hold it so exposed, as near, and as long as the pain will allow/’ “ Fire itself, applied near to a burnt part, is its own antidote, to drive out the fire/’ The explanation of this statement of the curative operation of fire in Burns, is assumed