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  • Andrew Robertson, chyrurgeon in Edinburgh, deputed by George Robertstone, younger, merchant in Glasgow 100

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • William Gager, who came out with Winthrop, is spoken of as "a right godly man and skilful chyrurgeon, but died of a malignant fever not very long after his arrival."

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • William Gager, who came out with Winthrop, is spoken of as "a right godly man and skilful chyrurgeon, but died of a malignant fever not very long after his arrival."

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Neither must you marvaile though all these died in divers manners of outward diseases, for this is the excellency of the Italian art, for which this chyrurgeon and

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • Italian receipe, as all his friends are well assured, the maker whereof was a chyrurgeon (as it is beleeved) that then was newly come to my Lord from Italy --- a cunning man and sure in operation, with whom, if the good

    Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801

  • Here I met with Pierce the chyrurgeon, who tells me that my Lady

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Thence to Westminster Hall, where I met with Mr. Pierce, chyrurgeon; and among other things he asked me seriously whether

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • So home, and at noon Dr.T. Pepys came to me, and he and I to the Exchequer, and so back to dinner, where by chance comes Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, and then Mr. Battersby, the minister, and then

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Here meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, he told me among other Court newes, how the Queene is very well again, and the

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 26: January/February 1663-64 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • I hear to-day that Tom W.odall, the known chyrurgeon, is killed at Somerset House by a Frenchman, but the occasion Sir W. Batten could not tell me.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

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  • surgeon

    May 14, 2014

  • Compare modern Italian chirurgo, surgeon.

    May 19, 2014