胸部の大手術であるにもかかわらず、全身麻酔の使用を頑なに拒否した

'The Operating Room' (Gekashitsu) is an immortal masterpiece of Japanese modern literature in aestheticism and conceptual novels, written by Kyoka Izumi in the Meiji period. In the suffocating operating room where medical graduate Takamine is to perform surgery, the noble Countess Masako Kifune obstinately rejected the use of general anesthesia despite undergoing major chest surgery.