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a person specially trained in healing human medical disorders
- a real old-timer who remembers when you could expect a sawbones to make a house call
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“Sawbones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sawbones. Accessed 20 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of sawbones was in 1837
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