Excerpt from The Operating Room: A Primer for Pupil Nurses This little book has been slowly and anxiously pieced together not by one continuous task, but by culling an idea here, a formula there, a test somewhere else, from the conversations of numerous good friends in the medic&l and nursing professions, and from happy memories of days in training under the kindly, thorough instruction of Miss A. M. Rykert and Miss J. MacCallum (now Mrs. Schenck, of Detroit), for the opportunity to be under whom those who were so fortunate have been increasingly proud and grateful as time goes by. Yet, withal, this book will seem rather crude in comparison with the finished work of experienced authors. Generously excuse its faults on the ground that it is only a pioneer, from a nurse to nurses, and not from a physician to nurses! These data have been garnered from journals on nursing, from physicians' libraries, and from the practical experiences of friends. If its humble appearance proves to be an inspiration to others more skilled, to take up the labor and go farther, it will have accomplished much. If, again, any nurse chances to learn that she too can constantly acquire information that may be at any time, no matter how remote, tremendously useful to her, it will not have been written in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.