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Excerpt from The Cure of the More Difficult as Well as the Simpler Inguinal Ruptures
3nine suppurations in 118 cases, and for most of which the author was personally responsible, seems a large percentage even for hernia cases ten years ago, but it was considered a good showing in those days. Since every one, including the operator, has invariably worn rubber gloves, suppurations even in the Operations for hernia, has occurred in probably less than 1% of the cases. In 1890, all the assis tants at an operation, the nurses and physicians, systematically wore gloves, but the operator wore them only for special Operations, such as exploratory laparotomies, explorations for foreign bodies, loose carti lages, etc., in the joints, suture of the fractured patella, etc. - in other words, when there was a possibility of doing serious harm and no cer tainty of doing great good. By degrees the operator wore gloves more frequently, until Dr. Bloodgood as Resident Surgeon, and who had become thoroughly accustomed to them as assistant, wore them invariably as operator and demonstrated from our statistics the necessity of doing so. It seems to be a fact that one who has been trained to operate always 209] the cases in which the veins were excised, were not the simpler ones.
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