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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


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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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