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An Experimental Study

JOHN L. LANGOHR, M.D.; LEON ROSENFELD, M.D.; CORA R. OWEN, Ph.D.; OLIVER COPE, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1949;59(5):1031-1044.

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A CHILD soon learns that cold relieves the pain of a burn, and cold has been used since ancient times in the treatment of burns. More recently, at the beginning of the second World War, Webster and others¹ and White and his associates² recommended cold in the therapy of immersion foot. They found not only that it relieved the pain but also that it was followed by some reduction in volume of the edema. Should such reduction in edema be achieved in a burn the use of cold might materially reduce the volume of plasma needed in the therapy of burn shock.

There are also theoretic reasons pointing to the use of cold for burns. Cold should diminish the metabolic demands of the wound, and if the circulation to the wound were impaired, the degree of tissue damage might be decreased. Bacterial infection should be reduced by the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Surgical Research Laboratories of the Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Footnotes
This work was aided by a grant from the Ciba Pharmaceutical Products, Inc., Summit, N. J.

The work described in this paper was done under a contract, recommended by the Committee on Medical Research, between the Office of Scientific Research and Development and Harvard University.

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