The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . FIG. 334. TYPICAL LAVATORY FOR PATIENTSROOM. Where it is desirable to fill the bowl,a standpipe of celluloid, made to fit theopening, gives an easily cleaned overflow. The scrub-up for the surgeon, as apreparation for operation, has under-gone various changes: from the footvalve, good at times but depending on aneven-pressure of the foot of the surgeonto produce an even flow of an even tem-perature ; then various form
The American hospital of the twentieth century; a treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century . FIG. 334. TYPICAL LAVATORY FOR PATIENTSROOM. Where it is desirable to fill the bowl,a standpipe of celluloid, made to fit theopening, gives an easily cleaned overflow. The scrub-up for the surgeon, as apreparation for operation, has under-gone various changes: from the footvalve, good at times but depending on aneven-pressure of the foot of the surgeonto produce an even flow of an even tem-perature ; then various forms of theknee valve, dependent upon a mixing. FIG. 336. OHIO VALLEY GENERAL SCRUB-UP. 204 THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL valve for the temperature, without regu-hition of flow; up to the simpler elbowor forearm control. Again we findthat the work of the European special-ists has given us models from which towork. A page from a Swiss plumbingcatalogue (Fig. 3.^5) shows a varietyof simple forms of both foot and ell)0waction valves. For the scrub-up for a number ofsurgeons, the long sink with several setsof outlets has proved satisfactory. Singlebowls, set together on one centralscreen, as at the Ohio Valley GeneralHospital ( Fig. 336) or the ^oungstownHospital, allows of easy access. In thesmaller hospital this same idea may becarried out with a raised basin in the cen-ter of the operating rotunda, as at theCharles Choate Memorial Hospital () ; for. with the combination non-hand-touching valve, all that is needed issufficient spillway for the water. This form of scrub-up valve placed over thework-room sink gives an
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