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Burns injury was discovered since the people use the fire either to prepare the food or to warm herself by the people ,but there was many types of treating during the centuries Egyptians treated burns by incantations and a mixture of gum, goat's hair, and milk from a woman who had given birth to a son. In the Smith papyrus reports of other strange concoctions have been found, but most of them consisted of some type of linen strips soaked in an oily preparation. These papyri date back to 1500 years before Christ and frequently refer to earlier periods. Neanderthal man treated burns with extracts of plants. Between the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., Chinese and Japanese used tinctures and extracts made from tea leaves. More recent use of tannic acid spray would seem similar, in that tea leaves are rich in tannin. Around 430 B.C., Hippocrates suggested the following: "having melted old swine's seam and mixed it with resin and bitumen, and having spread it on a piece of cloth and warmed it at the fire, apply a bandage." He also proposed the use of warm vinegar-soaked dressings to relieve the pain, and he later treated burns by tanning with solutions of oak bark. In ancient Rome there were apparently three methods in use. (1) Celsus described treatment with a mixture of honey and bran, and then cork and ashes. (2) Pliny the Elder wondered if it would not be better to allow burns to remain exposed to the open air rather than covering them with grease. (3) Galen prescribed vinegar or wine. It would appear that in these early civilizations the local treatments were not far afield from those of modern times such as tannic acid, greased gauze dressings, and exposure. Paulus of Aegina, a Byzantine of the seventh century A.D. whose writings reflected Greco-Roman thought, used various emollient preparations. The famous Arabian physician, Rhazes, at about the ninth century, used ice cold water. [1][2]
References
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- ↑ Pruitt BA, Wolf SE (2009) An historical perspective on advances in burn care over the past 100 years. Clin Plast Surg 36 (4):527-45. DOI:10.1016/j.cps.2009.05.007 PMID: 19793549 DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2009.05.007 PMID: 19793549 DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2009.05.007