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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 45762, member: 57&quot;]You know, there&#039;s a possibility that the physician (Dr. Walter M. Wright) was exposed to and contracted syphilis through a medical procedure he performed (surgery, childbirth????).&nbsp; According to a link already provided in this thread, Dr. Wright apparently began practicing medicine in 1876 and was no longer practicing medicine in 1899 (his death).</p><p><br /></p><p>The following link (from the National Institute of Health) gives a history of aseptic procedures in the medical field, including here in the USA, and mentions some old and well-thought-of (renowned) medical facilities not practicing such procedures as early as some would think they did.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;At Johns Hopkins, Dr. William Halsted didn&#039;t start wearing gloves himself at first. They were used by nurses and assistants but rarely by the doctors (except for the open bone and joint operations). Dr. Joseph Bloodgood, Halsted&#039;s protege who came to Hopkins in 1892, was later the director of surgical pathology and started using gloves himself during surgery in 1896 <i>(Figure <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/figure/F7/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2943454/figure/F7/" rel="nofollow">(Figure77</a>)</i>. (“Why shouldn&#039;t the surgeon use them as well as the nurse?”) In 1899, Bloodgood published a report on over 450 hernia operations with a near 100% drop in the infection rate by using gloves. Halsted said, “Why was I so blind not to have perceived the necessity for wearing them all the time?” Hunter Robb, a gynecologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, was another Halsted associate who was a pioneer of aseptic surgery and sterile gowns and one of the first to wear rubber gloves.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And from the above paragraph:&nbsp; &quot;except for the open bone and joint operations.&quot;&nbsp; I would think that the doctors began to wear gloves for bone and joint surgery because of the possibility that a sharp bone fragment could injure a doctor&#039;s hand/arm and prevent him from performing further surgeries for however long the injury took to heal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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