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Excerpt from The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and Collateral Branches of Science, 1824, Vol. 13 In some of these cases of severe burns, however, the fatal ter mination appears to be in no way connected with an affection of the respiratory organs coma or diarrhoea or strong symptoms of derangement of the nervous system, as watchfulness, delirium or convulsions are the precursors of death, and in some instances the whole, system is so prostratedi by the extent and severity of the injury, that no reaction takes place, the circulation is languid, and 'the extremities are cold, and the miserable sufferers linger but a few hours, or at most days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
