A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1851
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Credit: A report on the treatment of burns and scalds / drawn up at the request of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Samuel Crompton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    REPORT ON BURNS AND SCALDS. BY SAMUEL CROMPTON. It is ray design, in this Report, to give an analysis of tlie facts on the treatment of burns, which are contained in those communica- tions which were collected during the years 1847-8, with the sanction, and on behalf, of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. To this analysis I have ventured to add some remarks of my own. In November, 1847,1 printed in the Provincial Medical Journal a few remarks on the necessity for an inquiry into the treatment and prevention of burns and scalds. In that letter the members of the Association were asked to state briefly the results of their experience, in order that the treatment which is generally adopted might be ascertained. The communications which were received prior to July, 1848, were printed, as far as practicable, at full length in the Provincial Medical Journal, The rest are embodied in this Report. The following is a list of the names of those gentlemen who have contributed the results of their experience towards this Report, or who have assisted me in obtaining information :*— Francis Adams, L.L.D., Banchory. James Arnott, M.D., Brighton. Charles Barham, M.D., Truro, Cornwall, Senior Physician to the Cornwall Infirmary. T. Herbert Barker, M.D., Bedford, late House-Surgeon to University College Hospital, London. * From by far the greater number of these I have received written information; with a few I have had verbal communication. I am under great obligation to Dr. Lyon, of Manchester, for the interest which he has taken in the inquiry, and for his valuable advice and assistance. VOL. XVIII. B