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"Operating table" Quotes from Famous Books

... a book-lined library, wainscoted in natural woods of three colors, the original fanatic often sat reflecting pleasurably on his folly. Higher up the hillside stood a small, but model, hospital, with a modern operating table and a case of surgical instruments, which, it was said, the State could not surpass. These things had been the gifts of friends who liked such a type of God-inspired madness. A "fotched-on" trained nurse was in attendance. From time to time, eminent ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... made it clear before that Captain Kettle was a man possessed not only of an iron nerve, but also of all a sailor's handiness with his fingers; but here was a piece of work that required all his coolness and dexterity. At home, on an operating table, with everything at hand that antiseptic surgery could provide, with highly trained surgeons and highly trained nurses in goodly numbers, it would have been a formidable undertaking; but there, among those savage ...

— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne

... later she stood looking down upon the patient. He was still upon the operating table but breathing quietly and as strongly as at any time since he had ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne

... smoothly," I commented with a sweeping glance at the instruments over the operating table. "Everything seems in order." ...

— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various

... English—"I am greatly impressed with the fortitude of your American women who have assisted me. There is one—but why mention one, when they all typify to my mind graceful columns of ivory; pure in their strength and certainty, crystal in their thoughts and deeds! My operating table is a Grecian temple, Monsieur, when ...

— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris

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