Staff Surgeon

If medical attention is needed the man are looked after by the staff-surgeon of one of the military units stationed at Villach. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amputation was performed hastily by his staff-surgeon on the field; and then, instead of being taken to the rear for quiet and nursing, he mounted his horse, against the most earnest remonstrances of all his staff, and continued to command. ❋ William G. Stevenson (N/A)

Dr. Hunter McGuire, the Confederate staff-surgeon, noticed that Jackson was unusually animated, drawing curves in the sand with the toe of his boot while Lee nodded assent. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

Next Sunday, when the staff-surgeon told him that he could not possibly live through the night, he simply answered: "Very good, very good; it is all right." ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

Having by overwork brought on symptoms that seemed to threaten consumption, he accepted the position of staff-surgeon to an expedition to Belleisle in 1760, and two years later was serving with the English army at Portugal. ❋ Unknown (1904)

An officer in the uniform of a staff-surgeon came around the table where I was lying. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Barbadoes, and by noon poor little Fisher had been safely conveyed on shore and lodged in the colonel's residence near Needham Point, where he would have all the ladies belonging to the garrison to nurse him, and be conveniently situated for frequent visits from the staff-surgeon. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

"I used to have an abscess there, and Brodie, the staff-surgeon, said that it was ten to one that it would carry me off. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)