 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 <unk> describes treatments using honey and the <unk> 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 <unk> documented to 400 BCE , and wine and <unk> by <unk> documented to 100 CE . French barber @-@ surgeon Ambroise <unk> was the first to describe different degrees of burns in the <unk> . Guillaume <unk> expanded these degrees into six different <unk> in 1832 . 
