Two lectures on the primary and secondary treatment of burns / [Henry Earle].

  • Earle, Henry, 1789-1838.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Two lectures on the primary and secondary treatment of burns / [Henry Earle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowed to remain in a state of suffering until medical assistance can be procured, even when the best and most efficacious remedy may be immediately at hand; but which the patient or the friends are afraid of resorting to, from some mysterious fear that the dictates of common sense are not to be followed in these cases. Gentlemen, it is not without a hope, and certainly with the wish of being useful, that I undertake to address you on this sub¬ ject ; and that I shall endeavour to reconcile the discrepancies which exist, and to establish rules for the treatment of these cases on some¬ thing like rational principles. By burns or scalds are understood those inflammations, with their usual consequences, which are pro¬ duced by the action of high degrees of heat applied to the different textures of the body. In severe burns, the vitality of the skin and flesh is often completely destroyed by the action of the fire, which actually decomposes it, and renders it a caput mortuum, without the intervention of any previous inflammatory process. The human body, in health and vigour, is endued with extraordinary powers of resisting temperature, and of maintaining a standard heat of its own under every va-