Meanings
- not comparableNot physic.
Francis Shepherd, a contemporary and later colleague of Osler's at McGill, remembered Dr William Fraser's nonphysic, nonsurgical approach to emptying one of the hospital beds:
2002, Michael Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine, Page 61
Origin
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