Definition of Feldsher

1. a medical worker in Russia [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feldsher

felafel
felafels
felbama te
felbamate
felbertalite
felchards
felched
felches
felching
feldgrau
feldgraus
feldscher
feldschers
feldsher (current term)
feldshers
feldspar
feldsparlike
feldspars
feldspath
feldspathic
feldspathoid
feldspathoids
feldspathose
feldspaths
fele
felefold
felicias
felicidal

Literary usage of Feldsher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Russia by Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1905)
"What is this feldsher?" " " He's an old soldier who dresses wounds and gives ... You are a feldsher," I said, making use of the word which I had recently ..."

2. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1904)
"Of the Artillery: A Foot Battery has z "feldshers," i "feldsher" pupil, i Hospital Attendant. A Horse Battery the same as a Foot Battery. ..."

3. The Russian Peasant and the Revolution by Maurice Gerschon Hindus (1920)
"Often it is even difficult to bring a feldsher—a sort of trained nurse—to the ... But at best a feldsher is a feldsher. He administers something, and often ..."

4. Report on the Russian Medical and Sanitary Features of the Russo-Japanese by Raymond Spear (1906)
"Her complement is 1000 men, and displacement 12300 tons. The medical complement consisted of 2 doctors, 3 feldshers, one of which was an apothecary feldsher ..."

5. Collectanea: Essays, Addresses and Reviews by Perceval Maitland Laurence (1899)
""What he believes in," said a feldsher to Mr. Wallace, "is something with a very ... When an epidemic breaks out in a Russian village, and the feldsher is ..."

6. John Bellows: Letters and Memoir by John Bellows (1904)
"(A feldsher is a rough and ready doctor who has passed no examination ; a man who generally gives medicine rather with the hope of finding out what is the ..."

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