+Stage of Epidermis Covering.+ If skin grafting is not done, the new epithelium can be renewed only from the edges—a slow process often requiring months to cover the whole surface. Coincident with this stage is the stage of cicatrization. The granulations which fill the space left by the slough soon begin to contract—nature’s effort to fill the gap. The granulations are irregular and abundant and for this reason the scar resulting from a burn is irregular, uneven, inelastic, contracted, distorted, protuberant and disfiguring. +Duration.+ First degree burns get well in a few days; those of second degree, in about from seven to fourteen days, and the healing of the third degree burns depends upon their extent and depth, severe ones requiring a very long time. As to scarring in a burn of the third degree, you can always predict it, although this can be minimized by early skin grafting. +Treatment.+ The local treatment is to be directed toward the limitation of the resulting inflammation; the prevention of septic infection; assisting the normal elimination of the eschar; the development of granulations and limitations of the deformity. In burns of the first degree little or no treatment may be requisite; a mild dusting powder such as boric acid or sodium bicarbonate may be used, or picric acid in the strength of from half to one per cent.; a 5 per cent. boric acid ointment is also to be recommended. Burns of the second and third degree require a different treatment. Suppose we are called to treat a severe burn of the second or third degree and find the patient suffering agonizing pain with oncoming shock and a chill. At once administer a hypodermic of one quarter to one half a grain of morphine; 1-40, to 1-20 grain of strychnine; and 1 to 1-100 or 1 to 1-50 grain of atropine. To stop the pain and combat shock, have the room warm, clear it of unnecessary furniture; order hot water bottles, and, if necessary, give a hypodermoclysis or a Murphy enema. In a severe burn three things are more important than the local treatment: (1) to stop the pain; (2) to combat shock; (3) to provide for dilution and elimination of the toxins, which are thrown into the blood. After having carried out the instructions given above, then proceed to do the local dressing. The clothing should be carefully cut away—never pulled off, or dragged over the burned area. A burn is at first sterile, and we must try to keep it so. Unless we believe that it has become infected through dirty handling, or by having had dirty clothing dragged over it, or a dirty blanket laid on it, it is best not to wash the burn. Pieces of gauze of necessary size are now spread thickly with an ointment and applied somewhat beyond the burned areas; over this cotton, and over all a bandage. The patient is now put to bed, and if shock continues, the normal salt solution is repeated every eight hours and the patient is given plenty of water to drink.