Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . ranceof a burn and intense pain at the level of the mortified surface. Successiveapplication of all the lotions, topical applications and caustics known, eventhe addition of skin grafting, and the practice of curetting under anaesthesia,all with the same constant and absolute lack of success during eightmonths. From the end of October, 1896, the daily local application of a currentof oxygen upon the wound, during five hours every day, is the only treat-ment which appears to act favorably and to arrest the increasing growthof the wound without ever m
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . ranceof a burn and intense pain at the level of the mortified surface. Successiveapplication of all the lotions, topical applications and caustics known, eventhe addition of skin grafting, and the practice of curetting under anaesthesia,all with the same constant and absolute lack of success during eightmonths. From the end of October, 1896, the daily local application of a currentof oxygen upon the wound, during five hours every day, is the only treat-ment which appears to act favorably and to arrest the increasing growthof the wound without ever making it recede sensibly. February 9, 1897, commencement of electric treatment, applied withthe assistance of Dr. Planet, and which may be described thus: Dailystatic baths with emanations upon the part during all the seance of twenty tothirty minutes. End of March, addition to the static bath of the application of thecurrents of high frequency in the form of the electric condenser. * International Medical Congress, at Moscow, August, 484 Original Articles. From April, 1897, semi-weekly use of hydro-electric baths with theundulating current. Progressive improvement from the commencement of the electric treat-ment, and especially since the association of static emanation, with thepolar applications of the undulating current. Very slow, but progressivedetachment of the dry and very adherent escar and actual reduction (August,L897,) to about one centimeter and a half square. This little portion of escar will surely disappear before the end of thepresent month. Such as it is, it suffices to show the extreme gravity ofthe primitive lesion, and the extension of the process of mortificationtoward the deep parts ( the burn had attained the subcutaneous cellulartissue). The spontaneous fall of the escar, provoked by my treatment, has beenthe first course of the cure. Now that this result, the most important, inmy eyes, is finally obtained, one may see a wound of which the greates
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