Editorial: Fire — ‘Good Servant – Bad Master’
@article{Prins1994EditorialF, title={Editorial: Fire — ‘Good Servant – Bad Master’}, author={Herschel A. Prins}, journal={Medicine, Science and the Law}, year={1994}, volume={34}, pages={2 - 3} }
The phenomenon of fire has always played a significant and many-sided part in the history of human-kind. Throughout this history it has been put to many uses; for example, as an agent of succour, warmth and light, of healing and cleansing, but, sadly, also of destruction. This last capacity, is only too self-evident in contemporary society, with its daily reports of bombings, explosions and deaths and maimings caused by fire (see Prins, 1994). Fire as a phenomenon has held, and continues to…
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