Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1917 — PERFECT CURE FOR BURNS [ARTICLE]

PERFECT CURE FOR BURNS

Military Surgeons Have Accomplished Results Which a Few Years Ager Would Have Been Impossible. __ Among the wounded on the battlefields are soldiers with horrible burns caused by bursting projectiles, liquid fire, or scalding water. On the western front the allies transport the worst of these cases to a special hospital near Paris, where the meh are given the benefits of a new treatment that has lately come to public notice. In the short period of a few weeks, “living corpses” almost without semblance that enter the institution, leave fl without scars, and, more wonderful still, with scarcely anj visible evidence of the torturous injuries from which they have recovered The treatment, the discovery of ■ French physician, is described In Pop ular Mechanics Magazine. Next t< the almost unbelievable results li_ accomplishes, Is the fact that It banishes a patient’s suffering within a few hours. It Is a pqlnless cure for burn! of all kinds, Including acid ones. After being cleansed with warm watei and thoroughly dried with hot air, ai atomizer Is used to spray the burnef flesh with a preparation composed ol paraffin and resin, made liquid by heat Ing It to a temperature of about 15E degrees Fahrenheit. This gives th< wound a waxlike coating, over which cotton batting Is laid In thin strips The hot liquid is then applied to the latter with a brush, an seal Ing thus being provided.