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barber-surgeon |
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barber-surgeon inferior doctor; formerly a barber performing dentistry and surgery. [Medicine: Misc.] See : Quackery How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is an adaptation of the journal of Herman Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, a Dutch barber-surgeon. Cushman mocks other lesser characters with irreverent fun: the rhyming bloodletter Horanswith Leech, Mistress Annet Greedyguts, Grizzl Wimplewasher, barber-surgeons Boggle and Slodge. By mid-October off the Cabo Lopez Gonsalvo (Gabon, West Africa), the fleet suffered another round of setbacks, first from contrary winds and then from a deranged barber-surgeon. |
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