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minus-squareNecroParagon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 个月前“A gentleman’s hands could never be dirty!”
minus-squareKalkaline @leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 个月前He made them scrub with bleach water until he couldn’t smell corpse smell anymore.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 个月前Wait. For real? They had so much bacteria on their hands that they smelled of the dead, and they were going right into surgery with live humans? Damn, surgery must have been a death sentence back then.
minus-squareKalkaline @leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 个月前Not just surgery, but they were also working in labor and delivery, so they were getting all that on mothers and their newborn babies.
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 个月前They were practicing surgery on cadavers between deliveries. Gotta keep your skills up during your stint in maternity
“A gentleman’s hands could never be dirty!”
He made them scrub with bleach water until he couldn’t smell corpse smell anymore.
Wait. For real? They had so much bacteria on their hands that they smelled of the dead, and they were going right into surgery with live humans? Damn, surgery must have been a death sentence back then.
Not just surgery, but they were also working in labor and delivery, so they were getting all that on mothers and their newborn babies.
They were practicing surgery on cadavers between deliveries. Gotta keep your skills up during your stint in maternity