Paraffin Treatment of Burns (Continued) which gives even better results than Ambrine. This is now known as Paraffin No. 7, for which the following is the formula: Beta-naphthol resublimed..

Eucalyptus oil.

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Your medical readers will no doubt desire to know the method of treatment. It is as follows:

"The paraffin treatment is begun at the first dressing; very exceptionally in very septic burns the paraffin is replaced by hot boric fomentations for two days after two days of paraffin treatment. The burn is washed with sterile water and dried. The drying is accomplished by placing a dry piece of gauze over the burn. If an electric drying apparatus is available, such as ist used by a hairdresser for drying hair, it forms a convenient method of drying the burn. The burn is now covered with a layer of paraffin at a temperature of 50° C. No. 7 Paraffin has a melting-point of 48° C. The temperature may be estimated by waiting till the wax shows a solidifying film upon the surface. A broad camel's-hair brush has been found to be a rapid and painless method of applying the paraffin. A spray may be used, but sprays get out of order, are troublesome to use, and the dressing takes longer. In theory a spray should be used in order to prevent any damage to the epithelium. In practice we have found that a brush skillfully used is sufficiently satisfactory; the brush allows the paraffin to be applied at a lower temperature.

"A thin layer of cotton-wool cut the same size as the area of the burn is placed over the wound after the first layer of paraffin has been applied. This layer of wool is covered with a second layer of paraffin; the wool is cut in thin sheets and pressed between layers of paper in order to obtain thin layers of wool. The dressing is completed by applying wool and bandage. The burns are usually dressed daily. In the later stages, when the burn is clean and only a small amount of pus is formed, the dressing is changed every forty-eight hours.

"Blisters are not interfered with in any way at the first dressing; the paraffin is applied after washing the burn. Sloughs usually separate after a few dressings. The separation of sloughs is accelerated by applying a layer of jaconet over the wool and paraffin beneath the wool and bandage dressing.

"The treatment of burns by paraffin must not be discontinued in the latter stages. The substitution of ointments or fomentations is most strongly contra-indicated. Cases have come under our notice in which the good results of treatment have been entirely negatived by unsuitable treatment applied in the later stages. The newly formed skin is easily destroyed by fomentations. Paraffin must be continued until the burn is sufficiently healed to permit of any dressing with boric or tale powder."

I have recently conversed with Dr. Pleadwell, of the United States navy, who, having studied the cure in France, is enthusias tic in his approval of it, and also with one of our leading London doctors, who spent four months at Rouen last year; he gave me his opinion that the paraffin treatment was perhaps the most valuable discovery in surgery made in our time. Yours faithfully, London, February 14, 1917. ALBERT GRAY. We are informed by Dr. W. W. Keen, the distinguished surgeon of Philadelphia,

Paraffin Treatment of Burns (Continued) that the War Office circular referred to by Mr. Gray is based on an article by Lieutenant-Colonel A. J. Hull, R.A.M.C., which appeared in the "British Medical Journal" of January 13, 1917, page 37. Dr. Keen writes us:

"In the Philadelphia Ledger' of February 25 I published an article entitled

Dr. de Sandfort and Ambrine,' in which I stated that Dr. de Sandfort's Ambrine was a very great advance over our former methods of treatment of burns, and called attention to this paper of Dr. Hull's, reporting a formula which, apparently, had given better results than Ambrine itself. In this same article, however, I pointed out that Dr. de Sandfort had entirely departed from the ideal of the medical profession. Every such discovery, we hold, should be given freely to the world and not kept secret. Colonel Hull has made his public to the world, as is seen.

"In the British Medical Journal' of January 20 Flavine and Brilliant Green, new and more powerful antiseptics than we have used before, were also given to the world. Dakin's solution and Carrel's method of using it all have been given to the world. It is impossible to conceive that Pasteur or Lister would have kept their beneficent discoveries secret."

We take this occasion to state once more that The Outlook has never defended the secrecy of Dr. de Sandfort's formula for Ambrine. The highest French and British medical authorities now, however, have recognized in Dr. de Sandfort's Ambrine method a notable and praiseworthy contribution to surgical and medical practice. Nevertheless, the "Journal of the American Medical Association," without investigating these facts, denounced Dr. de Sandfort as a 66 charlatan," and his paraffin preparation as a nostrum." It was this unscientific pronouncement and the "Journal's" refusal to make an investigation of facts that The Outlook defined as medical intolerance. So far as we know, the "Journal of the American Medical Association has not revised its attitude in this particular matter.-THE EDITORS.

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we offered for the best letters of appreciation to know that the judges have awarded the three prizes to the letters printed below.

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In the sordid workaday round of monotonous duties that represents the common lot, all too quickly do we forget the glory that is in the world-the miracle of rainbow, cloud, butterfly, blossom, sunrise, and sunset. We slip into the habit of substituting false for true values. We ask wearily if it is even possible to keep in tune with the true and the beautiful. The materialist scoffs a negative. The cynic has his doubts. But "Just David" proves that it can be done! Therefore the value and inspiration of Eleanor Porter's book.

It is the heart story of a child who, with his beloved violin, plays his way into people's lives and affections, remembering he is "one little instrument in the Great Orchestra of Life, and that he must see to it that he is always in tune and doesn't drag or hit false notes."

"Just David" is an unusual story-a clever story. But it is more. Without being a "preachment," its cheery philosophy brings home the truth that Heaven. lies about us, not alone in our infancy, but in maturer years, and that we need never quite lose sight of "the trailing clouds of glory."

I spent the first night of this year at a Fifeshire fireside, so far as body was concerned, but in mind and spirit, far away across the Atlantic, with David, his father, and his friends. The book came as a blessing to me. Two good-byes to soldier nephews faced me in the near future, and the shadows of war were all around the family circle. But the sunny sentiment of "Just David" came like a golden gleam into the darkness. The winsome charm of the boy, with the mind that knew no evil, and the heart that beat so warmly, brought into happy relief the heights of human nature, instead of the depths that Hun hatred has brought so hideously into prominence. The story, beautiful in its simplicity, is indeed a sermon from the States. Mrs. Porter shows how the press may be made a powerful pulpit. Her pen people bring brightness and beauty into the book world, and instinctively her readers assimilate the sincerity and purity she keeps ever before them. I take pleasure in paying tribute to the book. And, if in days to come, friends find in me some new strain of helpfulness, an optimism I have never shown before, let them look for explanation in the pages bound up under the dear little deprecating title "Just David."

FRANCES KINCAIRD SCRYMGEour, Bruce Cottage, Newport, Fife, Scotland.

(Mrs.) MAY EMERY HALL.

Third Prize

When shadows hung over the old home and they needed me here, what do you suppose gave me faith and courage to feed the chickens, and darn the socks, and be both Mary and Martha while all the old crowd was back at college for another year? Why, "Just David"! I can't ever thank you enough for that beautiful story. It left me

"Sort o' smiley roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes -and happier and stronger.

I've read it to the family around the fireside at night; I've passed it on to the little school teacher; I've told it to a wee laddie just past four; and I know a dear white-haired grandmother just past eightyfour who has already put down the endless squares of her patch-work quilt to reread it.

It is one of the big things that has found its way into our little mountain community, and the world needs more of its kind. Clean, simple, strong, helpfulit stays with me through the months.

I wish every discouraged person could read "Just David." More than anything else it gave back to me the joy of knowing that it is a beautiful world.

Sincerely,

(Miss) MARY WYATT GALBRAITH.
Galbraith Springs, Tenn.

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THE NEW BOOKS

This department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS America and the New Epoch. By Charles P. Steinmetz, A.M Harper & Brothers, New York. $1.

Latter-Day Problems. By J. Laurence Laughlin. Revised and enlarged edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.50.

Modern European History. By Charles Downer Hazen. (American Historical Series.) Henry Holt & Co., New York.

Any one who essays to give a comprehensive account of modern European history certainly has his hands full. Professor Hazen's book may not be remarkable as an example of style, but it is the most comprehensive compendium we have seen; it is thus particularly valuable as a book of ref

erence.

Municipal Freedom. A Study of the Commission Government. By Oswald Ryan. With an Introduction by A. Lawrence Lowell. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York. 60c.

The author of this book was an instruc tor in Harvard University, at twenty-two or twenty-three, and gained such standing there that his volume is accompanied with an Introduction by the President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell. His volume is based largely on personal investigations in progressive cities in various parts of the United States since 1910. It is largely descriptive, but involves the advocacy of either the commission form of gov ernment or the city manager form of government, either of which he regards as preferable to the older form, a growth, but not a very intelligent imitation, of the forms of government adopted by the State and the Nation. We do not know of book any of equal size better adapted to give the reader an intelligent understanding of municipal problems in the United States. The volume is one of the series of "The Amer ican Books," designed as a series of authoritative manuals, discussing problems of interest in America to-day.

State Government in the United States. By Arthur N. Holcombe. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.25.

POETRY

"All's Well!" Poems. By John Oxenham.
The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.
New Belgian Poems. Les Trois Rois et
Autres Poemes. Par Emile Cammaerts. Eng-
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The John Lane Company, New York.
Out Where the West Begins, and Other
Western Verses. By Arthur Chapman.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.25.
Retrogression and Other Poems. By Will-
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York. $1.25.

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

Ambassador (An). (City Temple Sermons.) By Joseph Fort Newton. The Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. $1.

Apostles' Creed To-Day (The). By Edward S. Drown, D.D. The Macmillan Company, New York. $1.

American Poets and Their Theology. By Augustus Hopkins Strong, D.D., LL.D. The Griffith & Rowland Press, Philadelphia. $1. Dr. Strong judges American poets, not by their literary excellence, but by their spir itual value, and takes the Gospel of Christ as a standard by which spiritual values should be measured. By the gospel of Christ he understands the doctrines of Christianity as interpreted by a newer Calvinism. Appreciation of literary beauty is not wanting, but it is made wholly subordi

The New Books (Continued)

nate to his main purpose-the religious significance of the authors.

WAR BOOKS

Adventures of the U-202 (The). An Actual Narrative. By Baron Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (Captain-Lieutenant, Commander of the U-202). The Century Company, New York. $1. Challenge (The): The Church and the New World Order. By Frederick Lynch, D.D. The Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. $1.25.

Issue (The). By J. W. Headlam. - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.

My-Man: Letters from a Wife to a Husband "Somewhere in France." By C.. E. L. The George H. Doran Company, New York. 50c.

Revolt in Arabia (The). By Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 75c.

Student in Arms (A). By Donald Hankey.
E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50.
With the Flying Squadron. Being the War
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Macmillan Company, New York. $1.25.

EDUCATIONAL

After College-What? By Robert Bolwell. The Fleming H. Revell Company, New York.

75c.

High School (The): A Study of Origins and Tendencies. By Frank Webster Smith. Sturgis & Walton, New York. $2.

Modern High School (The): Its Administration and Extension. Edited by Charles Hughes Johnston. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.75.

Problems of Secondary Education. By David Snedden. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.50.

Short Stories and Selections. For Use in the Secondary Schools. Compiled and Annotated, with Questions for Study, by Emilie Kip Baker. The Macmillan Company. 25c.

SCIENCE

Growth of Medicine (The). From the Earliest Times to About 1800. By Albert H. Buck. The Yale University Press, New Haven. $5.

It is not often that a book of scientific scholarship is written in such a spirit and style as to be full of interest to the lay reader. Such a book is Professor Breasted's "Ancient Times," recently reviewed in these pages. Such a book is "The Growth of Medicine." The author, Dr. Buck, a well-known aural surgeon, was formerly Professor of Diseases of the Ear in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he has for many years been an important contributor to the literature of medicine and surgery in this country. "Very few persons," he says in his Preface, "will challenge the truth of the statement that in the United States and Canada there are not many physicians who possess even a slight knowledge concerning the manner in which the science of medicine has attained its present power as an agency for good, or concerning the men who played the chief parts in bringing about this great result." This is chiefly due to the fact that there is no good literary history of medicine in English. The author's purpose is to supply this want, and he has done so with marked success. His pages bear the indications of sound scholarship in various fields

in the classics, in French and German, in social and political history, in historical biography, and in the scientific discoveries of physicians and surgeons of all nations from the earliest times to the present. The care with which the book has been prepared is indicated alone by the bibliography which is printed at the conclusion of the volume, and various allusions in the text clearly point to the fact that Dr. Buck must have spent much time in Europe and its libraries

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UNK deep in the leathery comfort of a great-chair; fire crackling briskly; mellow lamp-light flooding over your shoulderyou rest and read. Comfortable reading is the reading one does in the evening, at home. It's a time of rest for the body and a time of play for the mind, to freshen you up for the work of toNot heavy, necessarily possibly very light; but something with a thought-a point of departure for your own thinking.

morrow.

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