A MODERN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE TREATISE ON BURNS OF HILDANUS,FABRICIUS (1560-1634)

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, some surgeons were as int erested in the classification, prognosis and treatment of burns as the ir successors are at the close of the twentieth century. We present ex tracts from our translation of the visionary treatise on Burns by Fabr icius Hildanus (Wilhelm Fabry), the ''Father of German surgery'', and show how some of the present day approaches to burns have their origin s almost 400 years ago.