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...n being or another, have the potential to do so, or seem to be doing so. Consider surgery, driving a car, or investing money in the stock exchange...

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...who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of French surgeons, the illustrious Desplein, who flashed across science like a meteor. By the consensus even of his ...

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..., that cen- tral luminary to which European doctors do homage, prac- tised surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies we... ...tice for him. The consequence was that in the course of time the Tyrant of surgery had a devoted ally. These two men—one at the summit of honor and of... ...n had sat on a chair near the master, or on the famous couch in Desplein’s surgery, on which he slept. Bianchon knew the mysteries of that temperament... ... as soon as I should have sold the linen. My stupid- ity proved to me that surgery was my only vocation. My good fellow, refined souls, whose powers m...

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...opes of earning enough money to continue her lessons. Along the way, she meets Peter Byrne, an American doctor in Vienna following his dream to study surgery. Peter is already watching over an orphan boy in a local hospital and now he takes it upon himself to protect young Harmony from the unsavory side of life in the big city. With life pressing in, Peter and Harmony each...

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...ely putting pragmatism before principle. The point is the claims to tradition and faith on which clerical authority rest are being eroded. Plastic surgery only allows the fiction of tradition to be sustained: everyone knows it’s dead (interestingly, there are websites in the US offering hymenoplasties to married women who want to give their husbands something “really sp...

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...tting, excisions. Of course you know a squint may be in- duced or cured by surgery? Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary chan... ...s hand at me; “I am only beginning. Those are trivial cases of alteration. Surgery can do better things than that. There is building up as well as bre... ...I took it up! Some of such things have been hit upon in the last resort of surgery; most of the kindred evi- dence that will recur to your mind has be... ...e ends. I was the first man to take up this question armed with antiseptic surgery, and with a really scientific knowledge of the laws of growth. Yet ...

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...ed people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures, Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with ho...

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...the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These things, chemistry, surgery and so forth, we m... ...ay the Samu- rai do personal services, except in the matter of medicine or surgery; they may not be barbers, for example, nor inn wait- ers nor boot c...

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... to the countryside. As he hurried now to attend to the outpatients in the surgery, glancing across the graveyard with his quick eye, he saw the girl ... ...elivered from his own fret- ted, daily self. He finished his duties at the surgery as quickly as might be, hastily filling up the bottles of the waiti... ...’clock on the clock. His own watch had stopped. He ought to go back to the surgery. He waited, and still she did not come down. So he went to the foot...

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...othing but his strength, his courage, his quick- ness, and his magnificent geniality, and to try to express these in terms of the culture of a raw tar...

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...ake two pupils,—two young fellows who, despairing of fortune, have quitted surgery for corporistics; they were actually dying of hunger; and yet they ...

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... swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye, 1984 The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures, 1985 Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes, 19...

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...instructed in all those common arts of bakery, needlework, notability, and surgery which made the lady of a castle or manor so important, and within t... ...as setting in, since gun-shot wounds were beyond the scope of the monastic surgery. T o refuse would not have been possible, even without the earnest ...

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... Polly sighed: she thought what she should do if young Mr. Tomkins, at the surgery, who always looked at her so at church, and who, by those mere aggr... ...arriage, dressed in the famous yellow shawl, by the young gentleman at the surgery, whose face might commonly be seen over the win- dow-blinds as she ... ...ition, was placed under the medical treatment of the young fellow from the surgery, under whose care she rallied after a short period. Emmy, when she ...

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...ansed the passages made by the bullets, and I saw the two men endure his crude surgery without anaesthetics and with no more to uphold them than a sti... ... while the storm was blowing itself out, Wolf Larsen and I crammed anatomy and surgery and set Mugridge’s ribs. Then, when the storm broke, Wolf Larse... ...managed to whisper, and I could but obey. By now I had developed such skill at surgery that Wolf Larsen, with a few words of advice, left me to my tas...

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...s his eyes could be closed. He was removed from the hotel to the Boscastle surgery, and from the surgery, after some weeks, to London. But he still re... ...could be effaced, habits removed, and desires eradicated—a sort of psychic surgery was, in fact, in general use. Indigni- ties, humbling experiences, ...

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... off, you know: to come off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged chambers bravely,— DOLL TEARSH...

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...and Cassio .] IAGO: What, are you hurt, lieutenant? CASSIO: Ay, past all surgery. IAGO: Marry, heaven forbid! CASSIO: Reputation, reputation, repu...

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...3 Iago. What are you hurt Lieutenant? 1384 Cas. I, past all Surgery. 1385 Iago. Marry Heauen forbid. 1386 Cas. Reputati...

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...ly announced as the residence of a medical practitioner, even if the word ‘Surgery’ had not been inscribed in golden characters on a wainscot ground, ... ...and peculiar sanctum of the establishment, from the repetition of the word surgery on the door—painted in white letters this time, by way of taking of... ...ERT SAWYER MR. BEN A LLEN AND M R. BOB S AWYER sat together in the little surgery behind the shop, discussing minced veal and future prospects, when ... ...the old lady. Mr. Bob Sawyer stopped to hear no more; but darting from the surgery into the outer shop, cried in a stentorian voice, ‘Ben, my boy, she...

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...n. He spoke of anatomy with enthusiasm: it was es- sential to the study of surgery; a knowledge of it added to the appreciation of art. Philip pricked... ...ing it too, but I shall take the F . R. C. S. afterwards. I’m going in for surgery . ” Most of the students took the curriculum of the Conjoint Board ... ...e drudgery: after that the student had to do with medicine, midwifery, and surgery, the interest of which was more vivid than the anatomy and physiolo... ...and was working on a farm. Philip attended now lectures on medicine and on surgery . On certain mornings in the week he practised bandaging on out-pat... ...which he had just been engaged on, but with the greater direct- ness which surgery has than medicine; and a larger proportion of the patients suffered... ...m, cleared away the remains of his supper , and sat down to read Walsham’s Surgery. He found it difficult. He felt singularly nervous. When there was ... ...began his dressing in the surgical wards. He was not so much interested in surgery as in medicine, which, a more empirical science, offered greater sc... ...ree ex- aminations as soon as he could, midwifery first, then medicine and surgery . The awful fear seized him that his uncle, notwithstanding his pro...