William Stewart Halsted

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[gentle music] In 1881, Dr. William Halsted rushed to help his sister Minnie who was hemorrhaging after childbirth.

He quickly inserted a needle into his arm, withdrew his own blood, and transferred it to her.

After a few uncertain minutes, she began to recover.

And in the 1890s, rubber gloves, which enter surgery through a love story.

William Halsted in, at Johns Hopkins ordered custom rubber gloves from Goodyear because the carbolic-type disinfectants were destroying the hands of his scrub nurse, Caroline Hampton.

Reader, he married her.

The gloves worked so well they took over surgery.