COLD WATER FOR BURNS.
Sir, —May I add iny experience of the cold water for bums treatment? While staying at a farm house in Tasmania many miles from any medical man my younger son was brought to mo screaming in terrible agony. He had been allowed to help one of the daughters of the house to stir jam. By some means ho had slipped forward and the hand and arm, up to the elbow, had plunged into the boiling jam. The screams and struggles immediately ceased when I put the injured part into a bucket of cold water. After about three hours, during which time we replenished the water to keep it as cold as possible, the pain had practically ceased. The hand, which was blistered and practically closed, was dressed with oil, and the small boy went comfortably to bed. In the morning ho was able to dress himself as usual and the only part that required any more attention was a broken blister high up on the forearm. This healed after a few days, leaving a small scar, which I have no doubt is there to this day. A.E.F.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20600, 26 June 1930, Page 14
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