Surgeons and their tools: a history of surgical instruments and their innovators--Part II: the surgeon's wand-evolution from knife to scalpel to electrocautery
El-Sedfy, A.; Chamberlain, R.S.
American Surgeon 80(12): 1196-1200
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1555-9823 PMID: 25513916 Document Number: 675651
This is the second of five articles reviewing the historical origins of some of the more commonly used surgical instruments and takes "time out" to remind current surgeons about the surgical pioneers on whose shoulders they now stand and whose inventions they now use.