Surgeon
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A surgeon, formerly, was a mere operator, who joined his practice to that of a barber. At the present time the profession has risen into great and deserved eminence, and surgery is now, properly speaking, treatment of bodily injuries and ills by manual operations and the use of surgical instruments and appliances. SURMISE (Law Fr. and Eng.) In old practice. Suggestion. "The plaintiff, upon a surmise of goods come to the hands of the executors, shall have a sci. fa."
1 Leon. 68, 286; Hardr. 82, 811.