Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Valuable Remedy For Burns. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Remedy For Burns.

Clmnce led to the discovery in the Paris hospital recently of what is claimed to be a valuable remedy for burns. A surgeon who was using picric acid as an antiseptic accidentally dropped tire on his hand and proved that he experienced no pain from the burn. This set him to thinking and experimenting, and he found that wounds healed with a solution of picric acid did not blister, and healed readily in the course of four or five days. The cheapness of picric acid and the ease with which it may be pi’epared ami kept in readiness, make it a most valuable remedy, aud it is to bo hoped that, further experiments will establish its efficacy.