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Surgeon

one who practises surexternal. for any species of the genus Acanthurus, medical appliances, whether internal or tion is to treat diseases or injuries by a more general sense, one whose occupa- operating manually upon the patient. In cures diseases or injuries of the body by spine with which each side of the tail is armed. In the early stages of their the fully-developed individuals, that for growth these fish are so different from In ichthyology, a popular name some time the young fish were placed in a separate genus, Acronurus.

Army the chief of the medical department. In the British Army a surgeon some time the young fish were placed in ical department.

Surgeon-general, in the United States diate and immediate, in all lesions or malformations of the human body. It was already an art when medicine proper was but a phase of superstition. The earliest notices of it occur among the Egyptians, who, as we find represented

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