surgeoncy

[Eng. surgeon; -cy.] The office of a surgeon, as in the army or navy. *sürg-eon-rý, subst . [Eng.surgeon; -ry.] The practice of a surgeon; surgery; a surgery. sürg-er-, *surg-er-ie, subst . [A corruption of O. Fr. cirurgie , sirurgie , chirurgie surgery, from Low Lat. chirurgia ; Gr. cheirourgia =a working with the hands; cheir (gen it. cheiros )=the hand, and ergo to work.] 1. Science & Hist .: The term includes a science and art, the former relating to the study of accidental injuries and surgical diseases common to surgiant the whole or several regions, organs, or textures of the body, and to morbid growths and pathological proce es of particular organs or regions, the latter to their treatment by operation. The Egyptians are said to have practiced the art with succe about 410 B. C. Hippo crates mentions a surgical instrument for reducing dislocated bones. Celsus, A. D. 17, was a skillful surgeon. In the third century surgery received an impulse from Eras i stratus of Alexandria, who introduced the practice of di ecting the human subject. The Arabians made some progre in the art. The founder of modern surgery is considered to have been Andrew Vesalius (1514-1564). His great work, De Corp or is Humani Fabric a Libri Septem , was published at Basel in 1543. The discoveries of Ambrose Paré, John Hunter, and others were followed by the conservative surgery in which so many signal triumphs were achieved by Brodie, Lawrence, Cooper, . The introduction of anes the sia by Sir J. Simpson led to the improved surgical practice of Fergu on, Syme, Paget, and others. Ovariotomy has saved hundreds of lives in the hands of Spencer Wells, Bantock, Keith, and Tait. Antiseptic treatment has been introduced by Sir Joseph Lister, with equally great effect; and Pasteur's inoculation treatment has, it is believed, been carried to succe , and will produce the grand est results in preventing disease. The introduction of lithotrity, the cure of aneurism by pre ure, the use of the ophthalmoscope, laryngoscope, thermometer, endoscope, splanchnoscope, sphygmograph, ., with the radical cure for hernia, skin-grafting, nerve-stretching, ., may be mentioned as among the comparatively recent triumphs of mod. ern surgery, rendering operations le terrifying and much more effectual. "This would soon raise surgery into an art."- Warbur ton: Divine Legation , bk. iv., § 8. 2. A place where surgical operations are per formed, or where medicines are prepared. sürg-l-ant, a. [Lat. sur go =to rise.] Her.: The same as ROUSANT OF RISING (q. v.). surg-ic-al, a. [A contract. of chirurgical, from Low Lat. chirurgicus.] [SURGERY.] Of or pertain surges. "The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea." Keats: Endymion , i. 121. sür-I-ā-na, s. [Named after Josepho Donato Surian, physician at Marseilles.] Bot. The typical genus of Surianaceae (q. v.), containing but one species, Suriana maritima . It is a woody plant, with alternate exstipulate leaves, racemose flowers, a five-cleft calyx, five petals, indefinite stamens, five carpels attached to a short gynobase, each cell of the ovary with two seeds. Fruit with a woody pericarp, five cells, each with one ascending seed. Found on the coast of various tropical regions.