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''Horris Packard (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American who invited the famous rubber glove. Throughout his life, he was addicted to cocaine and later also to morphine, which were not illegal during his time.

Horris Packard was born on September 23, 1852 in New York City. His mother was Mary Louisa Haines and his father William Packard Jr. His father was a businessman. Packard was educated at home by tutors until 1862, when he was sent to boarding school in Monson, Massachusetts. He didn't like his new school and even ran away at one point. He was later enrolled at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1869. Halsted entered Yale College the following year. At Yale, Halsted was captain of the football team, played baseball and rowed crew, chasing girls and live like a king to be free from his parents. Upon graduation from Yale in 1874, Halsted entered Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1877 he hadly got the Doctor of Medicine degree. His professors could not wait the day that the young medican student left the university worrying about the life of his future patients.

After graduation,Packard joined the New York Hospital as house physician, where he introduced the hospital chart which tracks the patient's temperature, pulse and respiration. It was at New York Hospital that Packard met William Steward Halsted who would become his closest friend. Packard did not know exactly what to do with his graduation as a surgeon, his friend William did the surgery cases, he had a bit of artist-soul,his collagues always wondered why on earth had he decided to be a doctor. He married one of the nurses from the hospital in 1887. In that time safe sex was out of the questions, but using condoms began to gain in publicity. Horris was obsessed with these tiny items and always played with them or made experiments in his late night of the hospital.

He began to wonder if condoms provide not to be pregnant or avoid infections it may help for the surgery section. He consulted the idea with his collegaues but his idea had been rejected. He did not give up one rainy night a very serious surgery case happened and the danger of the infection was likely. Horris bought a load ofcondoms and he treated the patient with the condoms on his fingers. It was succesful the patient survived the night. From that time Horris had searched the way how to improve the safety in the surgery that led him to invent and create the rubber gloves. The firs rubber gloves were tiny and easily ripped open, but he kept improving them with engineers. Horris Packard was not the most excellent surgeon but his creativity safed, and saving many lives in nowadays too. (and the buglars are grateful to him that they do not leave any fingerprints using rubber gloves )

P.S: In his marriage he did not utilize the advantage of the condoms because he had 5 children with his wife...