How the rubber glove was invented | Moments of Vision 4 - Jessica Oreck

翻译人员: 颖 曾 校对人员: Gabriella Hu

In a Moment of Vision...

在"视觉的时机"中

It's the winter of 1890.

那是1890年的冬天

Dr. William Halsted is the chief surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

威廉·霍尔斯特德博士 是约翰霍普金斯医院的主治外科医生

The scrub nurse under Halsted, a woman named Caroline Hampton,

霍尔斯特德手下的一个名叫 卡洛琳·汉普顿的手术助理护士

begins to develop a severe reaction to the strong disinfectants

她开始出现对强度消毒剂的一种严重反应

used to scour her hands and arms before surgery.

该消毒剂用来在手术前擦洗她的双手和手臂

Halsted takes an interest in her plight.

霍尔斯特德对她的困境提起了兴趣

In a moment of vision, he asks Goodyear rubber company

没多久，他让固特异轮胎橡胶公司

to experiment with the production of a pair of thin rubber gloves.

对一双薄橡胶手套的生产进行实验

They fit Caroline, well, like gloves, and her hands begin to recover.

它们非常贴合卡洛琳的手， 就像手套一样，并且她的手开始愈合

In fact, the gloves are such a success

事实上，这双手套做得非常成功

that the good doctor orders more for his team and for himself.

以至于霍尔斯特德医生为他的团队 以及他自己订购了更多的这种手套

From these early experiments,

从这些早期实验中

a multibillion dollar rubber glove industry is born.

一个数十亿美元的橡胶手套产业诞生了

And it turns out the doctor didn't just want to protect the nurse's hands.

人们发现医生不仅仅只是想要用来 保护这个护士的手

He also wanted to take them in holy matrimony.

他还想将它们用于神圣的婚礼中

Halsted and Caroline were married

霍尔斯特德和卡罗琳结婚了

just a few months after he gave her that first pair of gloves.

婚礼就在他把这第一双手套送给她的几个月后