Treatment for Burns.

Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 80

Treatment for Burns.

A child or any person #hose clothes are on fire should be madft to lie down at once. AH nurses and children as well as mothers should underitand this.

Having as quickly as possible forced the child to the ground, roll it in a rug, blanket, coat, or anything handy which will stifle the flames. Try to keep your mouth shut while doing this, ac it ie dangerous to inhale flamps. A strong solution of common soda and] water is splendid for drawing out the burn, after which apply sweet oil or. what is better still, a mixture of linseed oil and lime water.

Strips of linen should he saturated with this oil and laid over the burns ; then apply oilskin, and, lastly, wrap them wpII in wadding, as the great point with burns is to exclude the air.

The white of a raw egg turned over & burn or scald is most .soothing amd cooling. It can be applied qiiickly, and will prevent inflammation, besides relieving the stinging pain. t

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Mr JONATHAN REEVES, Hutchins, Texas, •wntes:

"I had *n attack of PNEUMONlA—continued to 'grow worse until the DOCTORS GAVE MB "DP TO DIE. Then JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT CUBED ME.' 1