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Show Modern Surglcal'RItual. The scene at an operating table In ono of our hospitals now would make one of the old masters of surgery stare. The operator himself and all his staff are dressed like the old holy priests ot Solomon's Temple, wearing white caps and gowns, with the nurses standing around like priestesses all in spotlesB white, while everyone about the table has gone through as many ablutions as befits the occasion of a bloody sacrifice under the auspices of the Immaculate Goddess ot Cleanliness. Cleanli-ness. ' A minute and elaborate ritual has been observed of sterilizing everything every-thing towels, threads, needles, forceps, for-ceps, Instruments, and what not, while the floor Itself Is made of class or glazed tiles, rather than of wood. The Burgeon himself does not venture to.cut the victim till he haB put on hla sterilized gloves, because he cannot possibly clean his own Angers enough. Ihould any onloo'x;r' take his hand jut ot his pockofto reach tor the gaping gap-ing wound, be would be ejected In-stanter In-stanter for spoiling1 ' the whole per-1 formance with his defiling touch. everybody's Magazine. |