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chirurgery
[ kahy-rur-juh-ree ]
Other Words From
- chi·rurgic chi·rurgi·cal adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of chirurgery1
Example Sentences
I was greeted by A Very Shorte and Compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery, a 1642 book of cures by Jane Jackson that features recipes to whiten teeth and cure toothache.
This corroborative, young sir, was unknown to the ancients: we find it neither in their treatises of medicine, nor in those popular narratives, which reveal many of their remedies, both in chirurgery and medicine proper.
Had I ever outlived that field in Brabant but for my most lucky mischance, lack of chirurgery?
And as the Indian priests expressed an excellent charity, by building Hospitalls and providing chirurgery for birds and beasts lamed by mischance, or age, or labour: so must we, not cut off, but cure these affections, which are the bestiall part.
He said, "I would therefore that all Chirurgiens should be learned, so would I have no man think himself learned otherwise than chiefly by experience, for learning in Chirurgery consisteth not in speculation only, nor in practice only, but in speculation well practised by experience."
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