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chyrurgionSurgeon

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
155 times in 107 works
Consistency
97.4% (155 of 159)
Reach if approved
~170 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: chirurgeon
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
162 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 107 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … want of such comforts and necessaryes as were needful in such a case. The ChyrurgionSurgeon was much wanted, who was left with the Barks in Narraganset Bay, with order …
    With rule
    … want of such comforts and necessaryes as were needful in such a case. The ChyrurgionSurgeon was much wanted, who was left with the Barks in Narraganset Bay, with order …

    Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … broke out into ſuch lamentations as occaſioned both Lodgers and Neighbours to approach; the ChyrurgionSurgeon being mentioned to be ſent for, to which ſhe replyed, you may ſave that …
    With rule
    … broke out into ſuch lamentations as occaſioned both Lodgers and Neighbours to approach; the ChyrurgionSurgeon being mentioned to be ſent for, to which ſhe replyed, you may ſave that …

    Nathanael Partridge · Blood for Blood · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to Christ, that he kept company sometimes with these, than it is to a ChyrurgionSurgeon to visit Hospitals, or to a Physician to converse with the sick.
    With rule
    … to Christ, that he kept company sometimes with these, than it is to a ChyrurgionSurgeon to visit Hospitals, or to a Physician to converse with the sick.

    Edward Stillingfleet · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … our Sauiour was sent into the world, not to doe the office of a ChyrurgionSurgeon or Physitian to the bodies of men, but to giue life and saluation to …
    With rule
    … our Sauiour was sent into the world, not to doe the office of a ChyrurgionSurgeon or Physitian to the bodies of men, but to giue life and saluation to …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 445 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … more voluntarie. Wherein (to win the better credit to this Discourse) I imitate the ChyrurgionSurgeon, who hauing ript vp, and cured the Impostume in his owne body, is carefull …
    With rule
    … more voluntarie. Wherein (to win the better credit to this Discourse) I imitate the ChyrurgionSurgeon, who hauing ript vp, and cured the Impostume in his owne body, is carefull …

    Henry Burton · Conflicts and Comforts of Conscience · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … he wa… brought home to his Father's House; and the Bones being set, the ChyrurgionSurgeon said, i… he should have another Fit his Cure would be impossible; he lay …
    With rule
    … he wa… brought home to his Father's House; and the Bones being set, the ChyrurgionSurgeon said, i… he should have another Fit his Cure would be impossible; he lay …

    Richard Baxter · The Certainty of the Worlds of Spirits and Immortality of the Soul · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … bowels, which continually gnawed him. Then did he send to Arles for a famous ChyrurgionSurgeon, who cured him of his difficulty to make water, after which, desiring all to …
    With rule
    … bowels, which continually gnawed him. Then did he send to Arles for a famous ChyrurgionSurgeon, who cured him of his difficulty to make water, after which, desiring all to …

    Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Diſeaſes dangerous and mortal; this is often cured by the launce of a ſorry ChyrurgionSurgeon, of whom there was none in that place.
    With rule
    … Diſeaſes dangerous and mortal; this is often cured by the launce of a ſorry ChyrurgionSurgeon, of whom there was none in that place.

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 227 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Oil of Gladness A15010

  • Printed
    WHen agood chyrurgionSurgeon meeteth with a feſtered ſore: Firſt, hee applyeth corraſives and cleanſing things, to cate …
    With rule
    WHen agood chyrurgionSurgeon meeteth with a feſtered ſore: Firſt, hee applyeth corraſives and cleanſing things, to cate …

    William Whately · The Oil of Gladness · p. 1 · Open in the reader

A General Martyrology A33309

  • Printed
    … his difficulty to make water, after which, desiring all to depart the room, the chyrurgionSurgeon in private exhorted him to repent of his former cruelty and bloud-shed, telling …
    With rule
    … his difficulty to make water, after which, desiring all to depart the room, the chyrurgionSurgeon in private exhorted him to repent of his former cruelty and bloud-shed, telling …

    Samuel Clarke · A General Martyrology · p. 138 · Open in the reader