This week, we talk about the development of electro cauterization, where you use heat to stop bleeding or cut more easily in surgery. We mostly have to thank William Bovie, who invented the device to do this, and Harvey Cushing, the pioneering neurosurgeon who first started using Bovie's tech, and convinced his fellow surgeons to follow suit.

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