bistouries

Turkey, have sent a hundred thousand surgeons provided with lancets, bistouries, and all sorts of instruments, adapted to cut off the morbid and gangrened parts; but the disease has only become more virulent.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Caresses of the surgeon that are like the oil they put on bistouries.

Madame Bovary 2003

His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.

Madame Bovary 2003

A hypodermic outfit, quinine, and a few bistouries completed my primitive medical department.

In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Algot Lange

Caresses of the surgeon that are like the oil they put on bistouries.

Madame Bovary 1902

Then he cleared all the little instruments out of his pocket-case -- the scissors, the forceps, the bistouries, the lancets -- and he laid them all out beside the stethoscope, to make as good a show as possible.

Round the Red Lamp 1894

Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries and spatulas were scattered about both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk.

Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

Then he cleared all the little instruments out of his pocket-case -- the scissors, the forceps, the bistouries, the lancets -- and he laid them all out beside the stethoscope, to make as good a show as possible.

Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

Douglas Stone took his case of bistouries from a drawer, and placed it with a roll of bandage and a compress of lint in his pocket.

Round the Red Lamp 1894

Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries and spatulas were scattered about both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk.

Round the Red Lamp 1894