Burn dressing

Claim 1

A BURN DRESSING SHAPED TO CONFORM GENERALLY TO THE ANATOMICAL CONTOURS OF THE HUMAN BODY ADAPTABLE TO BE QUICKLY WRAPPED AROUND IT AND COMPRISING AN INNER LINING OF NON-ADHERING PERMEABLE, SURGICAL RAYON ACETATE OF FINE MESH KNOWN AS "PARACHUTE SILK" ADAPTABLE FOR PLACEMENT IN CONTACT WITH BURNED, AND SURROUNDING NON-BURNED, BODY AREAS OF A PERSON SUFFERING FROM BURNS, AN ABSORBENT OUTER MATERIAL OF 2 TO 20 LAYERS OF TYPE VII U.S.P. SURGICAL COTTON GAUZE OF MESH SIZE IN THE GENERAL AREA OF 20" BY 12" STITCHED TOGETHER AT SUCH LOCATIONS AND ALONG SUCH LINES AS WILL LIMIT SLIDING OF THE MULTIPLE LAYERS WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND EFFECTIVE TO REINFORCE, STRENGTHEN AND GIVE STRUCTURE TO SAID MULTIPLE LAYERS OF SURGICAL COTTON MESH GAUZE, AND PLACED NEXT TO, AND COEXTENSIVE IN SIZE AND SHAPE WITH, SAID INNER LINING AND AFFIXED THERETO ALONG THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTIGUOUS EDGES BY TAPE WRAPPED AROUND SAID CONTIGUOUS EDGES AND STITCHED THERETO AND FASTENING MEANS FOR SECURELY FASTENING SAID BURN DRESSING OVER, AND WITH THE INNER LINING IN CONTACT WITH, THE BURNED PORTION OF THE PATIENT, EFFECTIVE TO COVER SAID BURNED PORTION AND SURROUNDING UNBURNED AREAS AND BECOME EMBEDDED IN THE BURNED PORTION AND ACT AS A REINFORCING THEREOF WHICH TOGETHER WITH THE SUPPORTING CELLULAR TISSUE ACTS AS A STRUCTURE AS IT HEALS TO A SCAB WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, NOT ADHERING TO THE UNBURNED PORTION OF THE SKIN IT IS IN CONTACT WITH, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY TO ALLOW THE EXUDATE TO ISSUE FROM THE BURNED PORTION AND PASS THROUGH SAID PERMEABLE INNER LINING AND BE ABSORBED BY THE ABSORBENT LOOSELY WOVEN OUTER MATERIAL, AND ALSO TO PERMIT SUFFICIENT VENTILATION OF THE BURNED PORTION BY ALLOWING THE SURROUNDING AIR TO PASS THROUGH THE LOOSELY WOVEN ABSORBENT OUTER MATERIAL TO AND THROUGH THE PERMEABLE INNER LINING TO THE BURNED PORTION OF THE PATIENT TO ACCELERATE HEALING THEREOF.