The ideal treatment for burns is one that, first, saves the patient's life; second, eliminates pain, shock and toxemia; third, reduces the morbidity to a minimum, and fourth, allows the burned area to heal quickly without skin grafting being necessary.
The method of treating burns to be brought out in this paper approaches closely to the "ideal" treatment, as may be seen by the accompanying table. First, there have been no deaths in cases in which the treatment has been used thus far, and there were only seven deaths in ninety-five cases in which this form of therapy was used during its development. Second, the period of pain and shock was very short. Toxemia did not develop as a serious threat. Third, the morbidity was greatly reduced, for the patients were turned about in a few hours and were urged to get up and about in a few days and