Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Treatment of Electric Burna. [ARTICLE]

Treatment of Electric Burna.

According to the of Dt Thierry, if a burn is treated by the external application or a saturated section of picric add the pain ceases at once, no blisters will form and it wH heal in four or five days; the yellow color which this acid gives to the ski* may be removed with boric acid. He suggests that a small quantity of phxric acid should always be kept o» hand wherever workmen are subjetv# to the possibility of being burned. Although not so stated, it may be inferred that the treatment will b<) effective for burns caused by electric currents. Between 20.000 ami 30.000 pounds rs sassafras oil are annually made in this country. The London jam trade provides employment for 10,000 people.