Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They strapped Foyle down on the operating-table while he raved and rambled. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1955)
Under a harsh battery of lamps, he bent over the operating-table working meticulously with a small steel hammer and a platinum needle. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1955)
Foyle strapped the body on the operating-table, opened a case of surgical instruments, and began the delicate operation he had learned by hypno-training that morning ... an operation made possible only by his five-to-one acceleration. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1955)
The hall was filled with rusting antique apparatus: a centrifuge, an operating-table, a wrecked fluoroscope, autoclaves, cases of corroded surgical instruments. ❋ Bester, Alfred (1955)
By suspending a television camera (and a microphone) over the operating-table it is possible to permit any number of medical students and doctors to view an operation at close-range. ❋ Unknown (1949)
The ground was covered with wounded, and the doctors were busy at an operating-table, improvised from two barrels and a plank. ❋ Various (N/A)
See some poor fellow stretched on the operating-table, stripped for the patching or trimming which half-helpless surgery can supply. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)
As she was placed on the operating-table the sunlight fell through the lanthorn, and lighted up the golden clusters of her hair, the welcome rays calling forth from her now pale features a responsive smile. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)
I don't mind once we start -- I don't mind the operating-table. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)
Stretcher-bearers came up at once, running across the meadow, and brought us two dead men, and nine wounded, who were laid on the operating-table. ❋ Georges Duhamel (1925)
Nobody greeted him, or stopped for preliminaries -- they laid him on the operating-table, and covered all but his shattered arm with a rubber sheet, and slit off his bandages, and then a nurse put someting over his face and said, "Breathe deeply, please." ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
Sure to die on the operating-table if he gets as far as that ... ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
In the corner of the studio is the operating-table, littered with small basins of liquid inks of various hues, and a sterilizing-vessel, which receives the electric needle after each client has been punctured. ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)
A prod of the hypodermic from the major surgeon, and "On the operating-table in fifteen minutes" was the answer to Marta's question if the poor fellow would live. ❋ Frederick Palmer (1915)
Operation: The patient, properly prepared, is placed with the sacrum resting upon the corner of the operating-table corresponding to the member to be removed. ❋ John Allan (1914)
Over to the ship they went, all hands in life-vests, and while the deck officer of the 352 was cross-questioning the captain and engineer, and looking around to see how much damage had been done and so on, Doc was rigging up an operating-table between the chart house and the chart deck rail, slinging the table in sort of hammock style so that when the ship rolled she would not roll his patients overboard. ❋ Unknown (1912)
This fair girl with the graceful head and the glowing blue eyes could not possibly be the sedate young woman who was accustomed to hand him instruments and sutures, ligate arteries, and attend to various minor matters from the other side of his operating-table. ❋ Unknown (1912)
