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"Surgery" Quotes from Famous Books

... knee—sometimes a back was bare— At last a frightful summerset he threw Right on the shingles. Any one could swear The lad was dead—without a chance of perjury, And battered by the surge beyond all surgery! ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... who has common sense, if he can read and write tolerably, may in some of the States, become a knight of the lancet in three years, and follow another employment a considerable part of the time besides. He has only to devote some of his extra hours to the study of anatomy, surgery, and medicine, recite occasionally to a practitioner, as ignorant, almost, as himself; hear one series of medical lectures; and procure certificates that he has studied medicine 'three years,' including the time of the lectures; and he will be licensed, almost of course. Then ...

— The Young Man's Guide • William A. Alcott

... the grand staircase, and the grand cloister, surprised me. I admired the elegance of the surgery, and the pleasantness of the gardens, which, however, are only a long and wide terrace. The Pantheon frightened me by a sort of horror and majesty. The grand-altar and the sacristy wearied my eyes, ...

— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

... have lost in Keats one whose gifts in Poetry have rarely been surpassed. Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, had their lives been closed at twenty-five, would (so far as we know) have left poems of less excellence and hope than the youth who, from the petty school and the London surgery, passed at once to a place with them ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

... The little Spanish girl, from whose baby arm he extracted a giant poisonous thorn, bore a mark like this,—a record of his own surgery. ...

— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage

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