REMARKABLE CURE FOR BURNS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 3

REMARKABLE CURE FOR BURNS

THE CLAIMS 5 OF AMBRIM. The "Sydney Morning Herald's" special correspondent in London, writing at the end of October, mentioned the new treatment for burns:— • Ariibrim had never heen heard of here until a day or two ago. Now, wo know it as-tho latest great discovery of medical science. Its inventor, it seems, has known it as that these many years past. Ho was in China as physician to the Yunnan, railways. At the time of the Boxer rebellion ho bad taken refuge in a mission house, which was attacked and had to be defended. During tho fighting a man was brought in suffering "horribly from burns. Dr. de Sandfort, tho physician m question; remembering how in former yoars amhrim—the resin of amberhad benofited 1 himself when suffering from, rheumatism, by application of it mixed with warm paraffin, spread somo of it on the burnt flesh of the wounded man. Almost at once his screams of pain wero silenced, and in a few days tho doctor was amazod! to seo a new skin forming. After other experiments he took his discovery to Paris, and was promptly laughed at by the medical savants. He has been laughed at over since. But ho knew what (jo knew—mid now, in the military hospital of Issy-les-Mo'iHneaux, ho is relieving and 1 curing inncmorablo cases of scalds and burns sent to him from the battlefields, while ambrim is famous, and its discoverer a national hero. But it has taken 12 years, and a war, to compel that result.