It's the winter of 1890.

那是在1890的冬天

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

威廉．豪斯泰德博士是約翰霍普斯金醫院的外科主任

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

豪斯泰德團隊中的一位刷手護士，一個名叫卡羅琳．漢普頓的女性

begins to develop a severe reaction to the strong disinfectants

開始對濃的消毒劑產生嚴重的反應

used to scour her hands and arms before surgery.

它被使用在手術前沖洗她的手和手臂

Halsted takes an interest in her plight.

豪斯泰德考量到她的困境

In a moment of vision, he asks Goodyear rubber company

靈機一動，他要求固特異橡膠公司

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

去進行實驗生產一雙薄的橡膠手套

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

它們符合卡羅琳的手，就像是一雙手套，然後她的雙手開始恢復

In fact, the gloves are such a success

事實上，這些手套相當的成功

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

於是這位貼心的醫生為手術團隊和他自己訂購更多的手套

>From these early experiments,

從這些早期的實驗

a multibillion dollar rubber glove industry is born.

一個數十億美元的橡膠手套工業產生了

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

而它的結果的不僅僅是醫生想要保護護士們的手

He also wanted to take them in holy matrimony.

他也想要將他們帶入神聖的婚姻

Halsted and Caroline were married

豪斯泰德和卡羅琳結了婚

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

就在他給了她的第一雙手套後的幾個月