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"As a writer, I don't want to chew my cud. I don't want to have to spit out and regurgitate the same stuff again."
- Harlan Ellison
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| Bacteria-Destroying Radiation | ||
| A special beam that created a sterile field for operations. |
| Now he began arranging his instruments on a portable worktable. As the last of the cold-pack was drained off by the suction tendrils, Parsons flicked on a high-frequency field and placed the potentials on each side of the cube. The terminals hummed and glowed as the field warmed. Now the inert body was within a zone of bacteria-destroying radiation. |
| Technovelgy from Dr. Futurity,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1960 Additional resources -
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Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation is a sterilization method that uses short-wavelength ultraviolet light to destroy micro-organisms. UV has been known to have these properties since the turn of the century (19th, that is).
This alternate cover for the novel shows off the instrument case of future physicians:
(Alternate cover for Dr. Futurity)
Compare to the black bag from The Little Black Bag, by C.M. Kornbluth, published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1950.
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