Excerpt from Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol. 37: January to June, 1892 To ask your attention, gentlemen, to consider for a few minutes the simple subject of the treatment of burns almost calls for an apology. With the many big, and new, and valuable things that surgery has nowadays to deal with, one may well hesitate before venturing to occupy your time with a matter apparently so trivial, and withal so commonplace, as that for which I now briefly ask your indulgence. But, as has been well said, much of our surgery, for some time to come, must consist in the perfecting of details, and we cannot do better, often, than think for a moment over some old stereotyped practice, which age has so habituated and custom so indelibly stamped, and try to see whether the methods of treatment adopted are in accordance With, and subject to, those higher principles which we have learnt to advantageously ap ly along other more advanced lines of surgery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.