Burns and their treatment : including dermatitis from high explosives / J.M.H. MacLeod.

  • MacLeod, J. M. H. (John MacLeod Hendrie), 1870-1954.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Burns and their treatment : including dermatitis from high explosives / J.M.H. MacLeod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ELECTRIOAL BURNS (continued)— general considerations, 78-82. healing process slow, 88, 92. heat burns differing from, 85. of the eyes, 88, 89. of face (illustration), 86. open method of treatment in, 93. pain due to, characteristics, 89. post-mortem changes, 89. prognosis, 91. sepsis complicating, 87. sequele of, 91. treatment, 92-93. ELECTRICITY, conductivity of trees to, 101. current required to produce burns, 79, 80, 81. dry skin relatively a non-conductor of, 78, 79 nature of 78-82. ELECTRODES, burns due to, 79. EMBOLISM, ’ disturbance of circulation due to, as cause of death from burns, 21. EPIDERMIS, action of extreme heat on, 23, 24. dressings interfering with growth of, 38, 53: extent of injury in different degrees of burns, 3, 4. re-growth of, 44. an aim in local treatment, 40. following burns, 9. EPISTAXIS, due to tetryl, 143. EPITHELIOMA, formation of, following burns, 15. ERYTHEMA, diagnosis of burns from, 25. due to trinitrotoluene, 135. following exposure to X-rays, 103, 104 injuries caused by, transient, characteristic of radium : burns, 114. treatment, 41. ESCHAR, condition following separation of, ee condition of tissue designated, 4. death from absorption of septic products following separation of, 22 due to burns from electricity, characteristics, 85, 86, 87. formation, appearance, and general characteristics, 8, 24. in burns of fourth degree, 11. liability to secondary hemorrhage during separation of, 93. ESOHAR (continued)— local treatment favouring removal | found of, 40 micro-organisms in the: discharge around, 12. separation of, in treatment, 45-46, EXPLOSION, atrophy of skin following burn from (illustration), 10. EXPLOSIVES, high, dermatitis from, 133-148. see also Trinitrotoluene; Tetryl; Lyddite, etc. EXUBERANT GRANULATIONS, treatment, 62. EYE BURNS, characteristics, 66. electrical, 88. treatment, 67. EYES, affections due to sunburn, 118. affections due to tetryl, 142. injuries due to corrosives, 124, 126. FACE, disfigurement following causal factor in, 14. electrical burn of (illustration), 86. FIBROLYSIN, composition and action, 74, 75. treatment of scars by, 75. FLEXION DEFORMITIES, due to delayed healing, 72. FOREARM, papular dermatitis due to fulminate of mercury (illustration), 145. FREOKLES, due to exposure to sunlight, 116. FRIOTION, treatment of scars by, 75. FULMINATE OF MERCURY, action on the skin, 144. papular dermatitis due to (illustra- tion), 145. burns, GAMMA RAys, 113. GANGRENE, following severe electrical burns, 87 following X-ray burns, 108. neurotic, cases described as, 129. prevention of, during treatment, 45. GASTRITIS, TOXIO, due to trinitrotoluene, symptoms and characteristics, 136, 137. treatment, 140. GLACIAL ACETIC ACID, action on the skin, 125. GLANDS, development of metastatic growths following X-ray burns, 107.