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Definition of Scalds
1. scald [v] - See also: scald
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scalds
Literary usage of Scalds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"Burns and scalds. Burns and scalds of the eyelids present many shades of severity,
... It is chiefly in cases of scalds from boiling water, and other hot or ..."
2. American Red Cross Abridged Text-book on First Aid by Charles Lynch (1913)
"Burns result from exposure of the body to dry heat, such as a fire, while scalds
are produced by moist heat in the form of hot water, steam, etc. ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"In ordinary burns and scalds tho immediate scat of injury is the skin or tho ...
Burns and scalds, therefore, are more dangerous in proportion to tho amount ..."
4. Medical Jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1856)
"BURNS AND scalds. A Burn is an injury produced by the application of a heated
substance ... This means of diagnosis would only apply to scalds from water. ..."
5. Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery, and by Walter Pye (1884)
"Burns and scalds. r;"™8 and In all systematic works on surgery tlie classification
of burns ... To the first class belong all extensive scalds or burns, ..."
6. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1864)
"BURNS AND scalds. A Burn is the result of the application of so great a ...
Burns and scalds vary greatly in the degree of disorganisation of tissue to ..."
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