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Besides this part of instruction, the pupils practise anatomical, chirurgical, and chemical operations.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

"I must examine the part," said I; and, kneeling down, I proceeded with what I imagined to be a most chirurgical air, to investigate the injury.

From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Lever, Charles James

Celsus, Pref. with the notes of Almeloveen, and lib. vii. præf., where the chirurgical part of ancient medicine is amusingly discussed.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Having some business at Wolverhampton, Scott stayed for a few weeks with Hodges, and assisted him in dressing wounds, letting blood, and other chirurgical matters.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

After this, they disputed of medicine, in all its thereapeutick, pharmacopeutick, and chirurgical parts; and not leaving natural magick untouched, they had exquisite disceptations concerning the secrets thereof.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John