THE USE OF THE PROBE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 18, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 20.

THE USE OF THE PROBE.

IT frequently happens that the doctor has occasion to probe a wound or sore.

Notice him when he does it. He opens his case of instruments. He takes out a long, slender silver or hard rubber rod which is from six to ten inches long, with a smooth, round end. Some of them are as small as a darning needle. Others are as large as a pencil.

Watch the doctor closely when he takes this probe and attempts to use it. If he does not take the precaution to clean it, stop him. Don't allow him to touch your sore with it. He has been using it on some one else, and may poison you if you allow him to use it.

Call his attention to the fact that he boils an instrument when he operates on any one, and he should also boil his probe before he uses it on you, either for a sore or wound. Make him do it. It will do him good. He is getting awfully careless about such things. Tell him you will furnish him with hot water, and he can dip it in it and clean it carefully before he uses it.

Otherwise he will use it on you, and slip it back in his surgical case, and use it on the next person. In this way he scatters syphilis, erysipelas, gangrene, cancer, and other infectious dirt.—Medical Talk.