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Pardon the crossposts. How likely is it that surgeons in the 1920s would have performed an actual operation without surgical masks and/or gloves? I'm trying to tell if a photo we have is staged (which I suspect it is) and no one is wearing a mask and some of the team are without gloves. They all have their hair covered, and the surgeons all appear to be wearing the old style collars that needed to be attached separately, and ties. There's also a viewing gallery behind them, and there doesn't seem to be any partition between the audience and the operating room. As I say, to me the photo looks staged, but I'd like to know if masks were standard equipment in operations for the period. Anyone desperately curious can see the shot here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/skinnydan/surgery.jpg TIA, DS ______________________________________ Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator David Taylor Archives North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System 155 Community Drive Great Neck, NY 11021 mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu ____________________________________________________________ STHC-L - Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives Forum STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sthc-l STHC-L@lists.ucla.edu STHC-L Archives -- Main Index STHC-L Archives -- 2005 Message Index |