Cautery (direct heating of tissues) has been used therapeutically for thousands of years. In the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the oldest surgical text, Ancient Egyptians documented its use to treat ulcers and tumours of the breast as far back as 3000 BCE. Hippocrates (469 –370 BCE) was a strong advocate of cautery. Later, in the 10th Century, Albucasis – the father of surgery in the Middle Ages – used heated instruments to treat diseases and stop bleeding. 4 In the early 19th Century, Becquerel was the first to use electricity in the form of direct electrical current to heat a wire that was used in electrocautery. In 1881, Morton discovered a safe alternating current with high frequency (>100 kHz) that passed through the human body without neuromuscular stimulation or electric shock. A decade later, d'Arsonval reported that the above current also caused a heating effect in the tissue. The first person to use electrosurgery was Rivere, who used it to treat a hand ulcer in 1900. Later, Bovie devel oped his generator, which in 1926 was used successfully by Cushing to excise a vascular myeloma. Their work was published with a detailed description of the various electrosurgical tissue effects of cutting, desiccation and coagulation, paving the way for modern applications of electrosurgery.
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