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Definition of Doctorless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doctorless
Literary usage of Doctorless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years of My Life (1877)
"... Shoes and stockings left in the mud—In St. Quentin—The HOtel Cambronne—A
doctorless private hospital—Miss ..."
2. Scenes from Italy's War by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1919)
"Between Piave and Tagliamento the Austrians in their flight had left their
hospitals doctorless, foodless, and in the last stage of human misery, ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"doctorless Regions.—There are said to be, out of 36000 communes in France, 29000
without any medical practitioner. ..."
4. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin (1905)
"Yet it is hardly surprising that under such conditions infant mortality is very
great, and, indeed, all through life in this doctorless land astonishing ..."
5. Buffalo Medical Journal (1849)
"... unwilling to encounter the risk resulting from personal carelessness, and the
chance of being houseless, friendless, and doctorless in case of sickness. ..."
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