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Oil of Brown Paper
Dip a piece of thick brown paper into the best salad oil. Set the paper on fire upon a plate, and the oil that drops from it is a good remedy for burns. 5523. Treatment of Burns and Discolorations Caused by Gunpowder. Dr. rubbed up with linseed oil to the consistence Davies, in a recent number of the London of paste or paint, and placed on with a brush, Lancet, states that he has found the following will be found productive of great relief. treatment most successful: Smear the scorch- There does not appear to be any risk from ed surface with glycerine, by means of a the constitutional influence of the lead, feather, then apply cotton wadding; lastly, though it has been suggested, to counteract cover with oil silk. In one case the discoloraany tendency of this kind, that the patient should take occasionally a little sulphate of magnesia. tion was very great, the patient looking more like a mummy than a living being. It entirely subsided in a month by the above treatment.