EXPLANATION OF PLATE I. FIGURE 1.-ANTE-MORTEM BURN. Scald by steam from a boiler bursting, July, 1892. From a photograph taken sixty hours after the accident. The injury covered one-half of the surface of the body. The red line is sharply marked; the extensive blisters formed are broken and ther contents have escaped; the serum drying has produced yellowish discolorations; the blush of redness on adjacent parts is well marked. Death resulted on the fifth day. FIGURE 2.-POST-MORTEM BURN. Exp. 1. (Appearances after application of a tin can containing boiling water.) The cuticle was raised by expansion. The blisters contained no serum and no red line is developed FIGURE 3.-POST-MORTEM BURN. Exp. 2. (Appearances after the application of iron at a dull rea heat.) No proper blister formed; the cuticle was raised, as in pre vious experiment. There was no serum and no red line or redness of adjacent parts. The cuticle is charred at one point, where the ro was brought into contact with it. |