12 On the Treatment of Burns and Scalds. 
of which the following is a good formula. Take of olive oil and 
white wax, each sixteen parts; white ceruse two parts, and 
Goulard’s extract of saturn (liquor plumbi cetatis) one part, 
mixed :—in winter, the proportion of the wax should be only four- 
teen parts *;—the proportions of each article are meant by weight. 
My intention here is to confine myself entirely to the result of 
my own experience alone. Therefore, with respect to the com- 
parative effects of this mode with the one lately recommended 
by Mr. Kentish, in injuries of this nature, I can say nothing, 
having never witnessed myself the effect of it. But perhaps it 
may not be going too far to state, that the mode of treatment 
recommended by that gentleman has been used here by pro- 
fessional persons, who have again returned to the cooling anit- 
phlogistic mode of treatment. 
It has been the practice of some practitioners, to push the cold 
plan so far, as to use even ice and snow to durns and scalds: 
of this, likewise, I can say nothing from my own experience. 
In burns or scalds, of such extent as not to admit of the or- 
dinary mode of dressing by plasters or cataplasms ; an emollient, 
desiccative, or stimulating liniment may be used, according to 
the intention required.—In the latter intention, which will be 
indicated by an adonic, sluggish state of the parts, the liniment 
of Mr. Kentish, viz. the linimentum terebinthine of the pre- 
sent London Pharmacope@ia, is doubtless a very appropriate 
one—using, as occasion may require, to the sores, after the eschars 
or sloughs have separated, or in the act of separating, desiccatives, 
or, in case of fungus rising, gentle escharotics ; never omitting 
withal, wherevér it can be conveniently applied, especially in the 
instances of exuberant granulations, dry lint and a moderately 
tight bandage. : 
It is searcely necessary to observe, that any cerate, or unguent, 
may be reduced te the state of a liniment by the addition of a 
due proportion of olive oil. . 
Since it is essential, according to my opinion, that the parts’ 
injured by Lurns or scalds, especially immediately, and for a short 
time after the accident, should be kept as much as possible from 
the action of atmospherical air, and likewise as cool and moist 
as possible; I have lately adopted the method of continuing the 
same wrapping linen on, observing to keep this constantly as’ 
cool and moist as possible, by frequently dabbing it over with 
the saturnine liguor, by means of a sponge or otherwise—having 
found the more assiduously this mode is pursued, together with 
* This cerate, although an excellent healing desiccative when of 2 
hardish consistence, is extremely injurious if of too soft consistence, es} e- 
cially in hot weather. 4 
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