chirurgeon

plural chirurgeons · alternative chirurgian · alternative chirurgion · alternative chyrurgeon

1. archaichistoricalA doctor or surgeon.

   Noting that there was something amiss, he had hurried down for a skilled chirurgeon, whom he brought out to us under an escort of scythesmen.

   1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, chapter XXXI, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC

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   1561, Hieronymus Brunschwig trans. Jhon Hollybush[sic] (pseudonym of Miles Coverdale), A most excellent and perfecte homily apothecarye.... Arnold Birckman, Collen (Cologne). Page 6 verso, section Of One That Hath the Palsye Let every Physicton or Chirurgeon therefore rule him after this, and well and exactly knowe, and searche the cause of the Disease, that he may more certaynly knowe how to heale the patient.

   At noon to the 'Change, and there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin, Mount, and W. Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner with me and were merry.

   1664 January 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “January 8th, 1663–1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC

   All we cou'd do cou'd get no more Words from him; and we took care to have him put immediately into a healing Bath, to rid him of his Pepper; and order'd a Chirurgeon to anoint him with healing Balm, which he ſuffer'd, and in ſome time he began to be able to Walk and Eat; […]

   1688, A[phra] Behn, Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. A True History, London: […] Will[iam] Canning, […], →OCLC, pages 213–214

   If I chance to be hang'd, being a luſty Sinewy Fellow, the Corporation of Barber-Chirurgeons, may be, beg me for an Anatomy, to ſet up in their Hall.

   1728, Thomas Otway, “The Atheist, or, the Second Part of the Solider's Fortune”, in The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London, page 44

   On the following day, Tresham was seized with a sudden illness, and making known his symptoms to Ipgreve, the chirurgeon who attended the prison was sent for, and on seeing him pronounced him dangerously ill, though he was at a loss to explain the nature of his disorder.

   1850, William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, Ainsworth's Magazine, page 481