. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians. Traces of lightning (after Strieker). white, the skin wrinkled, the sensation diminished ; after a time thesesymptoms pass off, the skin becomes red, the finger swells, and thereis a peculiar itching and prickling. This increases the more, the morequickly warmth follows the cold. The redness of the skin of thisdegree of frost-bite differs from that in burns, by its more bluish-violetcolor. After a time, these symptoms subside and the skin again becomes 262 BURNS AND FROST-BITES. normal. G
. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians. Traces of lightning (after Strieker). white, the skin wrinkled, the sensation diminished ; after a time thesesymptoms pass off, the skin becomes red, the finger swells, and thereis a peculiar itching and prickling. This increases the more, the morequickly warmth follows the cold. The redness of the skin of thisdegree of frost-bite differs from that in burns, by its more bluish-violetcolor. After a time, these symptoms subside and the skin again becomes 262 BURNS AND FROST-BITES. normal. Generally no remedies are used in these slight cases, but,very properly, patients are warned against warming the parts toorapidly; rubbing with snow, then gradually elevating the tempera-ture, is recommended. The above symptoms are thus explained:First, the capillaries are strongly contracted by the cold, and are thenparalyzed for a time. I shall not here discuss the tenability of thishypothesis; this explanation involves all the difficulties that we havealready met in the theories of inflammation. Red
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