Severely burned children experience profound emotional as well as physical trauma, and the management of the lat ter seemed well worthy of study. Ac cordingly the author saw professionally every burned child who was hospital ized at Colorado General Hospital for more than one day during nearly two years. There were 16 such patients of whom eight, all under five years old, were followed for a prolonged time.
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