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The learned doctors held a consultation, and resolved to trepan the skull and extract the worm.
THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLEO WIENERFigs. 141 to 146 are of the connections to the trepan and spears or rods.
WATER SUPPLY: THE PRESENT PRACTICE OF SINKING AND BORING WELLSERNEST SPONIf our Vulcans now-a-days were to trepan the heads of our Jupiters, they would find nothing in them!
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MR. VERDANT GREEN, AN OXFORD UNDER-GRADUATECUTHBERT BEDEThe sheep necessarily dies at last, unless we remove the parasite by means of the trepan.
ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATESP. J. VAN BENEDENThe surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS (4TH ED.)ERNEST WEEKLEYWell, suppose there's a hundred chances to one the trepan kills him on the spot—what then?'
THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARDJ. SHERIDAN LE FANUThey seldom trepan; a surgeon who attempted to perform it, would himself be perhaps in want of it.
A YEAR'S JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND PART OF SPAIN, 1777PHILIP THICKNESSEBut the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bit-stock.
MEDICAL ESSAYSOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.We ought therefore to try other means, and trepan the bone in several places, till whatever is rotten be taken away.
A DISSERTATION ON THE INUTILITY OF THE AMPUTATION OF LIMBSJOHANN ULRICH BILGUERIt is more properly spelled trapanned, and is not to be confused with the verb trepan, to remove a piece of the skull.
THE SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TREPAN
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