A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Chirurgus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. chirurgo: surgeon, chirurgeon, “pure Latin medicus vulnerarius” (Lewis & Short) [> Gk. cheirourgos > cheir, ‘hand’ + ergon, ‘work,’ working with the hand];

Surgeon (Eng.noun): “a medical specialist who performs surgery.

Surgery (Eng. Noun): “a branch of medicine that is concerned with diseases and conditions requiring or amenable to operative or manual procedures” (WIII). surgical: “requiring surgical treatment – distinguished from medical” (WIII).

- FRANCISCUS SOLDAN, Chirurgus. (Dill.), whose specimens Dillenius used in his botanical works.

- Franciscus Maria Tanuccius Florentinus Lithotomiae, & Сhirurgiae in Noscomio Divae Mariae Novae Florentiae Prof. (Mich.), Franciscus Maria Tanuccius, [a Florentine, man of Florence], Professor of Lithotomy and Surgery in the Hospital of Saint Mary of New [i.e. Renaisance] Florence.

- Sachsius pulvere ejus ad sanguinem e vulneribus effluentem compescendum Chirurgos uti tradit in Eph. Nat. Cur. Ann. 2. p. 92. (Dill.), Sachsius [the Surgeon] with a powder of it for the staunching of blood flowing from wounds as he said in the Eph. Nat. Cur. Ann. 2. P. 92.

NOTE: Paul Louis Sachsius, Doctor [Oxford Handbook of the Baroque, J. D. Lyon, ed.]

- [9. Usnea caespitosa exilis, capillacea, atra. The black tufted Usnea] - in rupibus Groenlandiæ lecta & ab me delata fuit a Franc. Soldano, Chirurgo (Dill.), collected on the rocks [rocky cliffs] of Greenland and was transmitted to me by Franciscus Soldano, Surgeon.

- [Usnea vulgatissima tenuior & brevior, sine orbiculis, Common small Usnea, without Rundles [i.e. circles]] Inveni etiam eum inter corticem Peruvianum & accepi ex Bonariensi regione a Dn. Mylam, Chirurgo, qui sarcoticum præstantissimum esse asserebat. Pancovius decoctum ejus ad firmandos capillos laudat (Dill.), I have also discovered it in the middle of Peruvian bark [i.e. Cinchona; Peruvian bark tree] and learned from the Buenos Aires [i.e. Argentina] region from Dn. Mylam, Surgeon, who declared it to be a most outstanding sarcotic [i.e. restorator of flesh]. Pancovius commends a decoction of it for strengthening the hair [i.e. of the head].

NOTE: Dr. Thomas Panckow (Pancovius) (1654-1665).

NOTE: Cinchona Cortex peruvianus ruber, the Red Cinchona, or red Peruvian bark tree.

NOTE: Bonariensis,-e (adj.B): of Buenos Aires, Argentina.