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Usage examples of surgeon.

This robotic surgeon, like all others in the known universe, thought I was allergic to sedatives.

He said if that were done they could amputate and save him, and the conversation ended in the surgeon giving the man to me to experiment on my theory.

When at the battle of Dresden in 1813 Moreau, seated beside the Emperor Alexander, had both limbs shattered by a French cannon-ball, he did not utter a groan, but asked for a cigar and smoked leisurely while a surgeon amputated one of his members.

Montgomery, in an excellent paper, advances the theory, which is very plausible, that intrauterine amputations are caused by contraction of bands or membranes of organized lymph encircling the limb and producing amputation by the same process of disjunctive atrophy that the surgeons induce by ligature.

White and his able young assistant surgeons had found antiscorbutic herbs and fruits growing wild, to which all but the most obstinate cases eventually yielded, and these were now being grown in the hospital garden.

A delicensed surgeon stacked twenty thousand in cash in his briefcase and prepared to saw off the right leg of a man afflicted with the rare condition apotemnophilia, the sexual desire to have limbs removed.

Gallagher, the surgeon for the appendectomy, had a firmer grip on his emotions than the medical-school professor had.

Demmet administered a small amount of curare to relax the stomach muscles, making the appendectomy that much easier for the surgeon to perform.

David once said what a surgeon he would have made, and Father Martin made a weak joke about appendices being made of damask.

The surgeon may perform an appendectomy only to find that the appendix is normal.

The surgeon performed an elegant midline opening and single-layer anastomosis of considerable facility.

It was common in the early days of antisepsis for a skeptical surgeon to half-heartedly try the lengthy, exasperating techniques on one or two patients, find that the patients still became infected, and generalize from this experience to conclude the system was worthless.

More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.

At the same time it was ordered that a physician and surgeon of their own appointing should see Wilkes, and report their opinion on his case.

America raised, not in condemnation of all experimentation upon animals, but solely in protest against its cruelty and secrecy, and in appeal for its reform, was that of the leading American surgeon of his time, Professor Henry J.