dissecting-knife

“The view of a medical man, when he has a problem in humanity to solve, seldom ranges beyond the point of his dissecting-knife.”

Armadale 2003

The doctor rose, laid aside his moral dissecting-knife, considered for a moment, and took it up again.

Armadale 2003

They who contend for the ancient custom of keeping the auxiliaries distinct, and parsing them as primary verbs, are, by the same principle, bound to extend their dissecting-knife _to every compound word in the language_.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

He was deft, too, with the dissecting-knife and the microscope, and with the geologist's hammer.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction Lane Cooper

God -- the Infinite source of all life -- at the point of his dissecting-knife, than has the speculative chemist at the bottom of his crucible, or Mr. Spencer at the top of his ladder of synthesis, he resolutely grapples with logic, as a last resort, and as remorselessly syllogizes God out of the universe as he would a mythological demon infecting the atmosphere of his dissecting-room.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

He was deft, too, with the dissecting-knife and the microscope, and with the geologist's hammer.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959 1917

The post-mortem examination of his life is complete; the hand which guided the dissecting-knife has trembled nowhere, nor shrunk from any incision.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

Elkinson glanced at me with a look, sharp, cold and penetrating as a dissecting-knife.

The Bride of Dreams Frederik van Eeden 1896

It was true there were no poor who, against their own will and that of their friends, could be subjected to the dissecting-knife; but on this very account there was to be found here no such foolish prejudice against dissection as was elsewhere entertained by even the so-called cultured classes.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

For the good of humanity, dead bodies may at times be subjected to the dissecting-knife, but never to wanton indignities.

Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Charles Coppens 1877