GLOVING Flashcards
1
Q
Before this year, no surgeon wore gloves.
A
1800s
2
Q
Surgical rubber gloves were introduced more than 100 years ago at?
A
Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital
3
Q
What happened during the ff years (HX OF RUBBER)
- 1500 BCE
- 1736
- 1770
- 1839
- 1870
A
1500 BCE
- Mesoamerican Olmec culture
- Used for making balls (LATEX)
1736
- Frenchman
- Charles Marie de La Condamine (RUBBER FROM TREE)
1770
- Englishman Joseph Priestly (Discovered eraser)
1839
- Charles Goodyear (Tire from rubber)
1870s
- introduced by British planters in India,
at the Calcutta Botanical Gardens.
4
Q
He is one of the big four founding professors of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
A
William Steward Halsted
5
Q
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