RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Surgical gloves and plastic gloves JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin JO Drug Ther Bull FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 93 OP 95 DO 10.1136/dtb.4.24.93 VO 4 IS 24 YR 1966 UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/4/24/93.abstract AB Surgical gloves are worn to prevent user and patient infecting each other, to prevent users carrying infection from patient to patient and for aesthetic reasons. Over two million pairs of surgeons’ rubber gloves (and nearly one million pairs of plastic gloves) are used in Britain annually.