They say, too, he used to be an excellent practitioner, an Edinburgh graduate, with a patronage of the best classes-a courtly gentleman who was well liked by his patients.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The local practitioner, an amiable man harassed with overwork, had made light of it.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
We hear sometimes of an action for damages against the unqualified medical practitioner, who has deformed a broken limb in pretending to heal it.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes