 Cave paintings from more than 3 @,@ 500 years ago document burns and their management . The earliest Egyptian records on treating burns describes dressings prepared with milk from mothers of baby boys , and the 1500 BCE Edwin Smith Papyrus describes treatments using honey and the salve of resin . Many other treatments have been used over the ages , including the use of tea leaves by the Chinese documented to 600 BCE , pig fat and vinegar by Hippocrates documented to 400 BCE , and wine and myrrh by Celsus documented to 100 CE . French barber @-@ surgeon Ambroise Paré was the first to describe different degrees of burns in the 1500s . Guillaume Dupuytren expanded these degrees into six different severities in 1832 . 
 Cave paintings from more than 3 @,@ 500 years ago document burns and their management . The earliest Egyptian records on treating burns <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>describes</mark></a> dressings prepared with milk from mothers of baby boys , and the 1500 BCE Edwin Smith Papyrus <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>describes</mark></a> treatments using honey and the salve of resin . Many other treatments <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>have</mark></a> been used over the ages , including the use of tea leaves by the Chinese documented to 600 BCE , pig fat and vinegar by Hippocrates documented to 400 BCE , and wine and myrrh by Celsus documented to 100 CE . French barber @-@ surgeon Ambroise Paré was the first to describe different degrees of burns in the 1500s . Guillaume Dupuytren expanded these degrees into six different severities in 1832 . 
Cave paintings from more den 3 @,@ 500 years ago document burns and their management . The earliest Egyptian records on treating burns describe dressings prepared w/ milk from mothers of baby boys , and da 1500 BCE Edwin Smith Papyrus describe treatments using honey and tdasalve of resin . Many other treatments done been used ova the ages , including the use of tea leaves by the Chinese documented to 600 BCE , pig fat and vinegar by Hippocrates documented to 400 BCE , and wine and myrrh by Celsus documented to 100 CE . French barber @-@ surgeon Ambroise Paré was thdairst to describe different degrees of burns in theda00s . Guillaume Dupuytren expanded dem degrees into six different severities in 1832 .