Casualty Surgeon
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The Oxford Dictionary gives the meaning of the noun Casualty as an accident, mishap or disaster. The adjective is casual, meaning accidental, irregular, undesigned, Unemotional, careless. I had chosen the title for this lecture before I read the dictionary and because the term "Casualty Surgeon" has been very close to me for many years. Now I know that when your Secretary asked me to speak to this learned Society, Jt was a mishap, and when I accepted it, it was a disaster. Perhaps before the end of the lecture you will feel that the whole proceedings have been both irregular and Undesigned.
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