. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ll room,soon realizes his error. The operation should be doneat that time of day when the light is best; but the sunmust not be allowed to glare directly on the part, as it isvery annoying. The arrangement of the operating-table should be asfollows : The ordinary kitchen table, 4x3$ feet, willanswer the purpose well. Place this endwise to a win-dow with the best light in the room. Let there be suffi-cient space between the table and the window to permita chair to
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ll room,soon realizes his error. The operation should be doneat that time of day when the light is best; but the sunmust not be allowed to glare directly on the part, as it isvery annoying. The arrangement of the operating-table should be asfollows : The ordinary kitchen table, 4x3$ feet, willanswer the purpose well. Place this endwise to a win-dow with the best light in the room. Let there be suffi-cient space between the table and the window to permita chair to be placed conveniently for the operator. Atthe right of the operator there should be a small table,covered with a towel, on which the instruments neededare to be placed, and under this table is a small stool orbox, supporting a basin of boiled water, for the purposeof enabling the operator to cleanse his hands of dried 156 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. blood from time to time. On the left of the f^—;^ operator is placed a chair, on which thenurse who holds the speculum sits. Behind. Fig. 3952.—The Operation of Trachelorrhaphy. The operator ie placed to one Side in order to show the field of operation. the nurse is placed the its stand. It shouldcontain one or two gallons of fluid. The stream is con-trolled by the nurses left hand (Fig. 3952). As regards assistants, an expert operator requires onlythe one in charge of the anaesthetic, and the nurse tomanage the speculum and irrigator stream. In fact, thefewer the assistants at this simple operation the extra one increases just so much the liability ofinfection. The operator should see to it beforehand thateverything that he may need is within easy reach. Ithas always seemed to the writer that the surgeon whofelt the necessity of an extra assistant at each side of himhas mistaken his calling, and should never have at-tempted an operation of this kind. Indic
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