The art of healing also has achieved some of its most glorious triumphs in the compressions, extensions, trepannings, colligations, and other
surgical or diaetetic operations by which Irregularity has been partly or wholly cured.
He called my attention to a convenient deck-chair before the window, and to an array of old books, chiefly, I found,
surgical works and editions of the Latin and Greek classics (languages I cannot read with any comfort), on a shelf near the hammock.
If he had been behind a screen I should have supposed they were performing a
surgical operation on him.
I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some
surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return."
At the new year Philip became dresser in the
surgical out-patients' department.
Upon the floor between me and the Mahars lay a tiny
surgical instrument which one of them must have dropped.
I was invalided and sent to Calcutta, where the best
surgical help was at my disposal.
Benjamin Allen; both gentlemen having received
surgical appointments from the East India Company.
Too late to know for certain, whether injuries received before or after death; one excellent
surgical opinion said, before; other excellent
surgical opinion said, after.
There are nerves and muscles in our frames whose functions and whose methods of working it seems a sort of sacrilege to describe by cold physiological names and
surgical technicalities, and the monk's talk suggested to me something of this kind.
Every time, too, my sword danced about in its sheath, a duel, fortunate in its result, was sure to follow: whenever it dangled about the calves of my legs, it signified a slight wound; every time it fell completely out of the scabbard, I was booked, and made up my mind that I should have to remain on the field of battle, with two or three months under
surgical bandages into the bargain."
In fact, they were badly wounded, and, having thrashed them, he proceeded to operate upon them in a rough
surgical fashion and to dress their wounds.