Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AL-PHON'SIN
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AL-PHON'SIN, n.
A surgical instrument for extracting bullets from wounds, so called from its inventor, Alphonsus Ferrier of Naples. It consists of three branches, which close by a ring, and open when it is drawn back. – Encyc.
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