TY - JOUR
AU1 - O'Day, J. C.
AB - 
        
          To the Editor
          —As I have been using safety-razor blades in surgery for three years, I was interested in the article in The Journal, Dec. 14, 1912, p. 2127. The handle portrayed ia an improvement over mine. The use of these blades was suggested to me by Dr. J. T. McDonald of Honolulu. When he was bacteriologist to the territory of Honolulu, he used blades to secure "snips" from those suspected of having leprosy. It came about in this way: Certain people contended that the physicians of the department of health were transmitting the disease by "snipping different persons with the same knife. Of course, the knife had always been sterilized. but this did not satisfy the objectors. To do away with this prejudice, the law was made that every knife should be destroyed after a "snip" had been made with it. Dr. McDonald then hit on the idea of using the
        
      
TI - The Safety-Razor Blade as a Scalpel
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1913.04340010069029
DA - 1913-01-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/the-safety-razor-blade-as-a-scalpel-Dj9JgmGx92
SP - 67
EP - 67
VL - 60
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -