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... anaesthetised, it is more convenient to secure it firmly to some simple form of operating table, such as Tatin's (Fig. 179), which will accommodate rabbits, guinea-pigs, and rats: or to the more elaborate table devised ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... went to see Dr. de Page's hospital. I saw a baby three weeks old with both his feet wounded. His mother came in one mass of wounds, and died on the operating table—a young mother, and a pretty one. A young man with tears in his eyes looked at the baby, and then said, "A jolly good ...
— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... crossing the Potomac. None wished to be left behind; even men so badly wounded that at home they would be confined to their beds marched one hundred miles in the killing heat. Hundreds of men with their arms amputated left the operating table to take up their long march. Some shot through the head, body, or limbs preferred to place the Potomac between themselves and ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert

... at the time, so with as little delay as possible he was placed on the operating table, and the necessity for amputation being too evident, I obtained his leave to remove both his legs above the knee; but his pulse was very feeble, and he was intensely nervous, throwing his arms wildly about, panting for ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... new turn of events, Miss Field. I had some information last night which may make a difference," he said, gravely. "I received a wire from Pope, in France. My wife— Isabelle—died on an operating table yesterday afternoon, in Paris." ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... grinned at him and turned back to her stack of boxes on the deck. She bent over and lifted one of the boxes to the operating table. Clay eyed her trim figure. "You might act like ma sometimes," he said, "but you sure don't look ...
— Code Three • Rick Raphael









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