The practitioners library of medicine and surgery.

The criminal practitioner dwelt in an atmosphere tainted alike with cruelty and crime, and pulsating alternately with merciless decrees of death, and the shrieks and wailings of sentenced guilt.

He was, as I have said, essentially a man of the (even then) old school, and retained the old-fashioned general practitioners phraseology.

There was a humble practitioner resident at Crosber, that is to say, about two miles from Wyncomb.