Factors concerned in the early stages of thermal shock.

AMONG the various well-known shocku producing traumata, such as hemorrhage, crush and burns, most experimental data has been collected from studies on hemorrhage. • Although experimental studies after burn injury have been made', the accumulated information is much less for this shock-producing agent. Particularly lacking is an assessment of the factors concerned in the very early stages of thermal burn shock and of the initial changes involving the circulation.