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Surgery
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
     2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.
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104) When Robert Codrington added a 1664 volume of advice for young ladies to his earlier book on youth behavior, he put The Queens Closet Opened first in a short list of "the most remarkeable Books for Physick and Chirurgery which I shall commend to Gentlewomen, for their Improvement in the knowledge of Chirurgery.
Opening the queen's closet: Henrietta Maria, Elizabeth Cromwell, and ... by Knoppers, Laura Lunger / Renaissance Quarterly
How about chirurgery (and old term for surgery) from cheir, 'hand' and ergon 'work' = Latin manus and labor 'manual labor' or maybe 'hand work.
Epistola by Wertheim, Naftali; Rosenberg, Edwin; Cyr, Gary / Verbatim
 
 
 
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