Abstract
When the history of 20th-century burn care is written, topical antibacterial agents are unlikely to receive the credit for contributing to progress in burn care that they have been awarded during the past two decades. Modern-day burn salves are probably no different in principle from the oils, foodstuffs, and escharotic agents that were applied throughout the 19th century; they hide the problem and delay the surgeon's primary task — skin replacement. The deficit in any full-thickness burn injury is skin, and that problem cannot be addressed by obscuring the wound with even the most pharmacologically refined lather.The widespread clinical . . .
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