body, it is better to use a warm
linseed-meal poultice. After a few days dress the wound with Turner's
cerate. If the burn is at the bend of the elbow, place the arm in the
_straight_ position; for if it is _bent_, the skin, when healed, will be
contracted, and the arm, in all probability, always remain in the same
un natural position. This, indeed, applies to all parts of the body;
therefore, always place the part affected in the most _stretched_
position possible.--_Constitutional Treatment_. The same kind of
treatment is to be used as for the first class, only it must be more
powerful. Stimulants are move often necessary, but must be given with
great caution. If, as is often the case, there is great irritability and
restlessness, a dose of opium (paregoric, in doses of from sixty to a
hundred drops, according to age, is best) is of great service. The
feverish symptoms will require aperient medicines and the fever mixture.
A drink made of about a tablespoonful of cream of tartar and a little
lemon-juice, in a quart of warm water, allowed to cool, is a very nice
one in these cases. The diet throughout should not be too low,
especially if there is much discharge from the wound. After a few days
it is often necessary to give wine, ammonia, and strong beef-tea. These
should be had recourse to when the tongue gets dry and dark, and the
pulse weak and frequent. If there should be, after the lapse of a week
or two, pain over one particular part of the belly, a blister should be
put on it, and a powder of mercury and chalk-grey powder, and Dover's
powder (two grains of the former and five of the latter) given three
times a day. Affections of the head and chest also frequently occur as a
consequence of these kinds of burns, but no one who is not a medical man
can treat them.

2622. _Third Class_.--These are so severe as to make it impossible for a
non-professional person to be of much service in attending to them. When
they occur, a surgeon should always be sent for. Until he arrives,
however, the following treatment should be adopted:--Place the patient
full-length on his back, and keep him warm. Apply fomentations of
flannels wrung out of boiling water and sprinkled with spirits of
turpentine to the part, and give wine and sal-volatile in such
quantities as the prostration of strength requires; always bearing in
mind the great fact that you have to steer between two quicksands--death
from present prostration and death from