Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Milk for Burns. [ARTICLE]

Milk for Burns.

A French physician has obtained good results in dressing burns with milk. Compresses are soaked with milk and laid on the burn, to be renewed night and morning. An extensive burn on the leg was healed in this manner. Two days reduced it in size from 14 to 7 centimeters; at the end of three days it measured but 2J centimeters in diameter. Another burn which had been treated for eight days with olive oil and oxide of zinc healed rapidly under a simple milk dressing.