It's the winter of 1890.

那是 1890 年的冬天，

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, begins to develop a severe reaction to the strong disinfectants used to scour her hands and arms before surgery.

豪斯泰德團隊中有一位名叫卡羅琳．漢普頓的刷手護士，對濃消毒劑產生了嚴重的反應，而在手術前她都必須使用消毒劑沖洗手及手臂。

Halsted takes an interest in her plight.

豪斯泰德考量了她的困境，

In a moment of vision, he asks Goodyear rubber company to experiment with the production of a pair of thin rubber gloves.

靈機一動，要求固特異橡膠公司進行實驗，生產一雙薄橡膠手套。

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

而它們非常貼合卡羅琳的手，就像手套一樣！爾後她的雙手便開始康復。

In fact, the gloves are such a success that the good doctor orders more for his team and for himself.

事實上，這手套的發明相當成功，於是這位貼心的醫生為手術團隊和他自己訂購更多手套。

From these early experiments, a multibillion dollar rubber glove industry is born.

從這些早期實驗中，一項數十億美元的橡膠手套工業誕生了。

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

而結果這名醫生不僅僅想保護那位護士的手，

he also wanted to take them in holy matrimony.

他也想與她攜手步入神聖的婚姻。

Halsted and Caroline were married just a few months after he gave her that first pair of gloves.

在豪斯泰德給了卡羅琳那第一雙手套後的幾個月，他們就結婚了。