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“Standing there, she gave a final glance at the instruments lying on the different trays: scissors, trocars, and elevators, used for scraping and dissecting bones; retractors, heavy L-shaped instruments for holding back organs and tissues; rongeurs, for gnawing holes in bones; mouth gags and bone cutters and rib cutters, whose tips were molded into shapes that resembled steel beaks.”
― Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis