TREATMENT OF BURNS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1076, 26 April 1867, Page 5

TREATMENT OF BURNS.

To the Editor of the 2*sw Zeaiasb Hkrald. g lKi —At the beginning of the present century the old Karron remedy stood first and foremost for the treatment of burns." Dressing the injured parts with flour followed, sueeeedcd by the use of wadding, chalk, and oil; but better still, chalk and water, and far better still is to use cold water alone, and the quicker applied after the accident the better. -The relief is both instant and lasting. There are cases where the injury is so great that no remedy can avail, still cold water will effect what no other remedy can, and it has this very great advantage, it' is .-"'ways at hand and requires no preparation. But still I hare found there is a Tery great drawback to its use—viz., simply its simplicity, and often at the time of need its use is forgotten altogether. In very severe cases success frequently rests entirely on the promptitude your application can be applied ; for times out of number, I recommended C ..Id water for burns as the very best remedy, and the safest, and in these hard times the cheapest.— I am, &c., J. H. Horse, Surgeon. To the Editor of the New Zuund Heratd. £13, —At a time like the present, when men aro enduring a lull from the busy absorption of gain, and are experiencing that vacuity which the withdraws! of idol worship will induce, it would be salutary and appropriate employment to reflect on the causes that have originated such disastrous results as they now expei ienco. Primarily : It is evident that money has been the popular idol, andtor its attainment as has been the case everywhere, principle has been too oftc-n sacrificed to expediency. Politics have been made the lever for individual and party interests, at the expense of the p; aple's welfare and prosperity. The people have been trained to expect everything from rulers whom they have elevated into power, and, as they might have expected, and as they deserved, have been grievously disappointed, looking for impossibilities. In order to move the energies, soraevhat lethargic, of the masses, demagogues have sought to indoctrinate them with the conviction that their success in the Colony depended, upon aggressive onslaughts against every form of Government but that which suited those who assumed to themselves the direction of popular opinion. These small and limited minded gentlemen —subjects during life of homeopathic practice—never having burdened their h ~ds with any bat the most infinitesimal portions of Bound political economy, were clearly less able to guide the vessel of the state safely, than hundreds of the people whom they dragged at their chariot wheels, through the slough of their corrupt political agitations. The multitude were tiught to believe '~iat th":e gentlemen would, if placed in power, cut the Gordian knot of wealth, unassociated with labor, and overturned men's minds from steady and progressive labour to chase a phantom. Platform harangues—public associations for political purpo«es, organised societies to respond to the dictation of a ! mere handful of men—these have been the money payment that the deluded people have obtain d for value received, and that valuo has been the help o" the popular voice to work out to a pretty tolerable state of perfection the advancement of the agirator at the cost of the people's best interests. And such gentlemen would ask to be included amongst our statesmen and patr : ot?. (Ueaven save the mark ') Let the people understand that in all infant state 3 a prosperous government depends upon a quiet and patie it period l" tentative legislation, and that any ill-dig—ted or : iterested attempts to improve legislation only protract to an indefinite period tho real prosperity of the country. When the people can point to a man who comes before them with the insignia and proofs of patriotism, then let them follow on in faith, but until this miracle presents itself let them understand their best policy is to wait on.

He who writes the history of this Province in time to come, and recites that to manage the aflairs of a town of some 12,00 n or 15,000 inhabitants, with a scattered rural population of about twice the latter number, all busily employed in the quiet and persevering work of their vocations, it was found necessary to wring from the people tens of thousands per annum —wrung from their scant and hard earned subsistence—and that one half of the population of the city were directly orindirectly benefitted in the governing of the other half—he will indeed wonder -.t the Boeotian indifference, or ignorance of the people—and will mark down in history, as a beacon f or future ages, the example of a community who, attempting prosperity and greatness in a new country, contemned the recognition of simple universal righteousness, and expected that inflated ignorance and intense iiclfiahness would achieve what man's highc-st wisdom ha 3 failed to do without the foundation of equity and justice. Many a resident in Auckland will have to curse that prurient ambition which made him grasp political power instead of attention to hi-i own concerns. The example of Phaeton wa3 storied in vain for them—and their common sense succumbed tc the attainment of political power and honor*, at the cost of true independence, truthfulness, and integrity. Let the people of Auckland, nevertheless, yet once more combine and agitate, but let it be for the purpose of sweating from their soil Superintendences, Councils, and (Jitv Boards, these incubi and nightmare' jt their Province, and let these be replaced by a cor poration with wisdom enough to Tesrn\c.la the affairs of an exhausted treasury, and ■»»iu zeal enough to beat from office the covetous placeman, or the dependant kinsman, unless such men can do the work honestly and as faithfully as the people require it to he done. And then let the people to their work, to till the ground, to occupy thought and energy in reproductive industry, gaining thereby true independence of character and that reflective power which onforces the acceptance of Cicero's great truth, Nihil est in vita magnopere ezpecletfdum nisi laus ct honestas. which truJ.tilig it may become the watch- word of the Auckland people I Dei to translate for their advantage, tl There is nothing in lifo eo earnestly to be sought after as character and probity." A Colonist Auckland, April 24, 1867.