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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    In such case, we might look for exhaustion and mortification—for a parallel between the direct consequences of applying heat to Burns; and the same result indirectly, from suddenly applying stimulants to frost-bite. Difficult as it is to avoid the effects of in- ordinate re-action in parts rendered torpid from cold, by the subsequent sudden appli- cation of great heat with other stimulants, it is not easy to reduce excess of temperature in the living system, either suddenly or with permanence, below the standard measure of health. The increase of vital action, and the afflux of blood determined to a part by the powerful stimulus of disengaged caloric, will continue to augment the animal heat, and protract the morbid state, so as to produce the accession of symptomatic or sympathetic fever. Hence, in Burns and Scalds, when “ there is increased action alone, Ave have nothing to apprehend from the sedative operation of cold applications; or from those which rapidly abstract caloric by their evaporation. They will neither induce torpor nor subsequent dangerous re-action: but will prove highly