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Cryosurgery. Reloaded and renewed.
The therapeutic use of cold has been known throughout the history of mankind. The therapeutic effect of locally applied cold to stop bleeding from wounds and in traumatic shock was described as far back as Hippocrates. Although treatment with cold has a history as long as medicine itself, it was only from the second half of the 19th century that cryosurgery became an independent and promising field…
