Hoppe Seyler meets with similar results and arrives at the same conclusions in his observations.
Ponfik,[726] on the contrary, is doubtful of the constant presence of some of these conditions and also of their diagnostic value.
Seliger[727] confirms the conclusions of Wertheim, in that he describes the presence of crystalline bodies and of dark discolorations (melanin).
Some spectroscopic analyses have disclosed the presence of bands additional to those of normal blood. The lack of uniformity of conditions described and of conclusions reached leaves the subject in a position of uncertainty. Examination of the blood of those dying from burns has not been so extensively and minutely followed as to enable us to decide questions which may arise in any case.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II.
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FIGURE 1.—ANTE-MORTEM BURN.
Scald by steam from a boiler bursting, July, 1892.
From a photograph taken sixty hours after the accident. The injury covered one-half of the surface of the body. The red line is sharply marked; the extensive blisters formed are broken and their contents have escaped; the serum drying has produced yellowish discolorations; the blush of redness on adjacent parts is well marked. Death resulted on the fifth day.