Operating Theatre

This is a man who used a stopwatch to determine the optimal method of buttoning a shirt -- bottom-up/top-down -- and had his enormous brood of children given sequential tonsilectomies which he filmed in order to establish today's familiar operating-theatre procedure. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The battlefield seen from a distance and in a position of complete safety is like going over a hospital and seeing the flowers in the wards, the perfect sanitary arrangements and the general air of orderly comfort, and ignoring the operating-theatre with all its grim tragedies. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)

"It's not surgery!" said one of the young surgeons, coming out of the operating-theatre and washing his hands at the kitchen sink; "it's butchery!" ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)

I have not yet given them Extreme Unction; but, before being taken into the operating-theatre, they both went to confession and received the Eucharist in admirable dispositions. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)

Taken the next morning to the operating-theatre for the draining of the wound, he looked curiously at the tube of ether and put it to his nose himself; it had only to be held there. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)

It is not on a stretcher that the badly wounded can be carried to the radium-ward, or those for plaster-work or dentistry, or to the surgery for wounds in the head, or to the operating-theatre. ❋ Felix, Klein (1915)

And somebody has to get the day's orders from the dispensary and operating-theatre and sterilizing-ward. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

Dining-room, drawing-room, and billiard-rooms had been turned into wards, the library was an office, and the best bedroom an operating-theatre. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

He was for the coast-road, with the hospital and the operating-theatre at the end of it. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Shattered glass fell in showers of fragments from the roof of the operating-theatre, as the force of the explosion passed beneath the buildings in a surging of the ground on which they stood, a slow wave rolling southwards, without a backward draw. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

The HFEA found that laboratory and operating-theatre staff had failed to carry out basic procedures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Swansea hospital, pictures are being hidden on the operating-theatre shelves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These experiences usually involve the patient floating somewhere near the operating-theatre ceiling and looking down on their own body as the surgeons work. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It was a pleasure to see Dr. Inglis in the operating-theatre. ❋ Eva Shaw McLaren (1914)