DCHP-3

saddlebag surgeon

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in the early days of settlement in the West, a doctor who did his rounds on horseback, carrying his instruments, medicines, etc. in his saddlebags.

Quotations

1954
Another card . . . came from a former patient who remembered the pioneer years before the turn of the century, when the saddlebag surgeon rode through blizzard and downpour to sod shanties on the prairie. . . .