Surgery


Cautery (2)

Cautery, about 1930 

 

 

More modern than the "Paquelin" were from the early 20th century on devices in which the platinum thread was electrically heated. Galvanocaustic was invented in Finland by Gustav Samuel CRUSELL (1818-1858) from Tammela and further developed to therapeutic maturity - in 1848 he founded the "Institute électrolytique" in St. Petersburg.


The surgeon Victor von BRUNS (1812-1883) teaching in Tübingen from 1843 onwards took up the method and brought it to a high perfection.

 

 


From the estate of the doctor Paul HETTO (1895-1979), who worked in Diekirch, comes the assortment of probes of a (lost) device of the Parisian company DRAPIER.
The rollers and plates (left in the foreground) were used for (internal) electrotherapy, in which the current applied directly to the patient.
The filaments of the probes (in the middle of the picture and at the top) served for the monopolar electro-coagulation of small haemorrhages, which were difficult to access surgically.
Neutral plate electrodes on the right in the foreground.