infirmariann.
/ɪnfəˈmɛːrɪən/ One who has charge of an infirmary and of the patients there, esp. in a monastic establishment or as a member of a religious order.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > non-medical worker > [noun] > hospital administrator > religious infirmary
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1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xvi. 114 In all her sickness..she did neither more nor less, but as the Infirmarian would have her.
1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 47 He was their doctor, infirmarian, comforter, father, servant.
1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Feb. 7 A small passage communicated with each carriage, so that the surgeon and infirmarians could go to and fro between the sick beds and the kitchen.
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