Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A barber-surgeon.
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The monks were the early practitioners of medicine and were forbidden to practise surgery, which was thus left to the barber-chirurgeon.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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