Physician vs Leechcraft - What's the difference?
physician | leechcraft |
A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
A medical doctor trained in human medicine.
*1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
*:The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice.
The art or practice of healing or medicine.
*1861 , David Irving, John Aitken Carlyle, David Laing, The history of Scotish poetry :
*1904 , Joseph Frank Payne, English Medicine in the Anglo-Saxon Times :
*2003 , David Langford, He Do the Time Police in Different Voices :
*2006 , Mindy MacLeod, Bernard Mees, Runic Amulets and Magic Objects :
*2007 , Jessica V. Tomaselli, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. English, The coexistence of paganism and Christianity in the Arthurian legends :
*2010 , Eoghan Odinsson, Northern Lore: A Field Guide to the Northern Mind-Body-Spirit :
The skill or expertise of a physician, medical knowledge; medical attendance.
*1829 , Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Hungarian tales :
*1981 , Anya Seton, Katherine :
*1995 , Sigrid Undset, In the Wilderness :
As nouns the difference between physician and leechcraft
is that physician is a practitioner of physic, ie a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery while leechcraft is the art or practice of healing or medicine.physician
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Alternative forms
* phisician (obsolete) * phisitian (obsolete) * physitian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun) ("physician" on Wikipedia)Usage notes
* In the UK and (w) countries, a physician holds a postgraduate degree such Master of General Medicine or fellowship certificate such MRCP or FRCP from the Royal College of Physician in UK. In the United States, the term is frequently regulated by State laws, and in all States includes those with the (w) (D.O.) degree, the (Doctor of Medicine) (M.D.) degree, and in many, but not all States those with the D.C. (Doctor of Chiropractic) degree.Synonyms
* See alsoleechcraft
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Noun
(en noun)- The course of his adventures at length conducted him to Scotland, where he followed his leechcraft with similar success.
- The earliest was Apollo, and his son Aesculapius, and Asclepios; and Asclepios was uncle of Hippocrates ; these four earliest invented the building up of leechcrafts about fifteen hundred years after Noah's flood in the days of Artaxerxes, who was king of the Persians; [...]
- Our villain, who may or may not be 'Dr James', knows his Latin but not - if I may so phrase it - his leechcraft ."
- The use of vapour baths ('stone baths') and the smoke of certain herbs to drive out spirits of disease in animals and humans is well-attested in Germanic folklore and leechcraft , though, and might be compared with the use of steam and steam-baths typical of classical medicine, the Christian ritual of burning away the ashes of embers of sin [...]
- According to Geoffrey and Layamon it is through his “leechcraft ” that he is able to make Uther look like Gorlois.
- Herb Lore & Leechcraft
- Smitten with apprehension, I crawled unto the cell of one of the brethren, renowned for his leechcraft ; [...]
- She had long ago accepted his disapproval, but she had perfect trust in him and his leechcraft as she had had at Hugh's bedside in Bordeaux.
- He proposed that Olav Audunsson should move down to his house and submit himself to his leechcraft .