operating-theatre

Updated: May 4, 2025

"It's not surgery!" said one of the young surgeons, coming out of the operating-theatre and washing his hands at the kitchen sink; "it's butchery!" He told me that he had never seen such wounds or imagined them, and as for the conditions in which he worked he raised his hands and laughed at the awfulness of them, because it is best to laugh when there is no remedy.

Philip Gibbs - The Soul of the War