"Chirurgeon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... house. The same means is adopted to prevent the leeches from dying of repletion. In Gujarat the Jokharas are a branch of the Hajjam or Muhammadan barber caste, [446] and this recalls the fact that the barber chirurgeon or surgeon in mediaeval England was also known as the leech. It would be natural to suppose that he was named after the insect which he applied, but Murray's Dictionary holds that the two words were derived from separate early ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell |
