New Remedy For Burns

Dr. Thierry, of the Paris Charity Hospital, has by happy chance made a discovery which may prove of immense benelit in the treatment of burns. Having been in the habit of using picric acid in solution, as an antiseptic, ha found one day, when some sealing wax feil on nis hand at a time when it was impregnated with this acid, that he scarcely feit any pain, and the same immunity showed itself when he let a burnlng match fall on his hand. He has since found that all pains from burning cease soon after bathing the part affected in a solution of this acid.