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Physician   /fəzˈɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Physician  n.  
1.
A person skilled in medicine, or the art of healing; especially, one trained and licensed to treat illness and prescribe medicines; a doctor of medicine.
2.
Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.






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"Physician" Quotes from Famous Books



... won't be for so very long anyway," remarked Nan. She turned to the physician. "It is very good of ...
— Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach - Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves • Annie Roe Carr

... on her father's behalf. He was in poor health, and his physician's orders were imperative upon the point ...
— The Sins of Severac Bablon • Sax Rohmer

... had been ill, and as spring came on she grew worse. The family doctor gave her cod liver oil, then iron, then nitrate of silver, but as the first and the second and the third were alike in doing no good, and as his advice when spring came was to go abroad, a celebrated physician was called in. The celebrated physician, a very handsome man, still youngish, asked to examine the patient. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

... great consideration, how Toni had not borne the life on the mountain very well and they had been obliged to bring him down, and since it seemed best for him that he should go at once to a good physician for the right care, he had sent the boy ...
— Toni, the Little Woodcarver • Johanna Spyri

... not tell him what they had achieved that morning, but put him off with a story of having settled a sbirro in a quarrel about a girl. Then the Count invited them to dinner; and being himself bound to entertain the first physician of Venice, requested them to take it in an upper chamber. He and his secretary served them with their own hands at table. When the physician arrived, the Count went downstairs; and at this moment a ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


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