Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50616 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chirurgeonsSurgeons

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

Puritas changed it: 93 times in 62 works
Consistency: 97.8% (93 of 95)
Reach if approved: ~102 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 97 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (93 changes in 62 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 93)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… all their Infants as soon as they were born. While the sore is green, ChirurgeonsSurgeons seldom despair; but festered once, they hardly cure it: So it is with the …
With rule
… all their Infants as soon as they were born. While the sore is green, ChirurgeonsSurgeons seldom despair; but festered once, they hardly cure it: So it is with the …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
LONDON, Printed for Abr. Chandler, Sam. Clements, and Sam. Wade, at the ChirurgeonsSurgeons-Arms in Alderſgate-Street, the Swan in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Bible under …
With rule
LONDON, Printed for Abr. Chandler, Sam. Clements, and Sam. Wade, at the ChirurgeonsSurgeons-Arms in Alderſgate-Street, the Swan in St. Pauls Church-yard, and Bible under …
John Shower · Sacramental Discourses Before and After the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
Being almoſt worn out with the Miſeries which the frequent Operations of the ChirurgeonsSurgeons put him to: He wrote theſe as the laſt words in his Diary, with …
With rule
Being almoſt worn out with the Miſeries which the frequent Operations of the ChirurgeonsSurgeons put him to: He wrote theſe as the laſt words in his Diary, with …
Edmund Trench · The Life and Death of Reverend Edmund Trench · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… judgement to unmingle things, that Antichriſt had confounded and put together: thereby like ſome ChirurgeonsSurgeons, who keep their Patients from healing too ſoon, that they may make the cure …
With rule
… judgement to unmingle things, that Antichriſt had confounded and put together: thereby like ſome ChirurgeonsSurgeons, who keep their Patients from healing too ſoon, that they may make the cure …
Thomas Gataker · A Mistake · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conceive by filthy Rags,Iſa. 64 6. the Spirit of God alludes to thoſe Rags that ChirurgeonsSurgeons take off of corrupt and filthy Sores, which we know are very loathſom; this …
With rule
… conceive by filthy Rags,Iſa. 64 6. the Spirit of God alludes to thoſe Rags that ChirurgeonsSurgeons take off of corrupt and filthy Sores, which we know are very loathſom; this …
Benjamin Keach · Tropes and Figures · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they can build Christs house by pulling it in pieces; and such excellent ChirurgeonsSurgeons, that they will heal Christs body by separating the members, and can make as …
With rule
… that they can build Christs house by pulling it in pieces; and such excellent ChirurgeonsSurgeons, that they will heal Christs body by separating the members, and can make as …
Richard Baxter · The Cure of Church Divisions · Open in the reader
Printed
… with his Dogs at the dore. The Dogs were both his Almoners and his ChirurgeonsSurgeons. Things muſt not go after this rate for ever. Sooner or later, a man …
With rule
… with his Dogs at the dore. The Dogs were both his Almoners and his ChirurgeonsSurgeons. Things muſt not go after this rate for ever. Sooner or later, a man …
Thomas Case · Mount Pisgah · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… consciences. The latter by his mildnesse he easily reduceth to the truth; whereas the ChirurgeonsSurgeons rigourously handling it, often breaks that bone quite off, which formerly was but out …
With rule
… consciences. The latter by his mildnesse he easily reduceth to the truth; whereas the ChirurgeonsSurgeons rigourously handling it, often breaks that bone quite off, which formerly was but out …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 279 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.