Medical Names

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Examples:

English: Bonesetter - OED sv "bone-setter", a medical profession, dated to 1518: A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Ev, A bonesetter he hyreth. (Registered in April 2016.)

Descriptive bynames for people who practiced medicine in Reaney & Wilson:

• Barber, Blood, Dubbedent, Farmery, Leach, Leachman, Letcher, Myer, Nurse, Pestel, Physick, Sucker, Surgenor, Surgeon...

Norse:

læknir - Hildigunnr læknir, "Hildegunnr the Healer". url: @http:''www.vikinganswerlady.com/medicine.shtml Also “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók” by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman), lists “læknir” as meaning “leech, doctor”. url: @http:''www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html

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Precedents:

François la Flamme	2003.06	The documentation provided for the byname the Healer// on the LoI was: "The [Oxford English Dictionary], p. 1273, dates this spelling of the word with the intended meaning to 1611." The OED (s.n. Healer) dates several uses of the word //healer// to period. However, this entry specifically states that the early use for this term was as a word meaning 'Saviour'. Of the period examples of //healer// given in this entry in the OED, only one seems to use //healer in a context other than 'Saviour': "c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 {gh}ef he hefde on his moder ibroken hire meidenhad, ne mihte nawiht brekere bon icloped helere." Talan Gwynek provided a translation for this entry: "If he has broken his mother's maidenhead, the breaker may in no way be called a healer."
Therefore, the main use of the word healer// in period is as a synonym for //Saviour// and calling a person //the Healer// in period would typically have been interpreted as calling them //the Saviour, a claim which violates RfS VI.2 "Names Claiming Powers", which states that "Names containing elements that allude to powers that the submitter does not possess are considered presumptuous."
Regarding the modern meaning "One who heals (wounds, diseases, the sick, etc.); a leach, doctor; also, one who heals spiritual infirmities" (OED, s.n. Healer), this is, at best, a rare meaning for healer// in period and no evidence has been found that //healer// was used as an occupational byname in period. As such, the submitted byname //the Healer// falls into the same category as //Oakencask, which appears in the precedent:
> Since the Oxford English Dictionary first dates the term cask// to the middle of the 16th century, and there are period descriptive names for barrelmakers, such as //Tunn/Tunnewrytte//, we find //Oakencask highly unlikely. [James Oakencask the Just, 06/99, R-Atenveldt]
As there are documented period descriptive bynames for people who practiced medicine (see Reaney & Wilson s.nn. Barber, Blood, Dubbedent, Farmery, Leach, Leachman, Letcher, Myer, Nurse, Pestel, Physick, Sucker, Surgenor, Surgeon), and the primary meaning of healer// in period was as a synonym for //Saviour//, this byname is highly unlikely to have been used in period. Therefore, as with the example of //Oakencaskcited above, this byname is not registerable... [Kaires the Healer, 06/2003 LoAR, R-Caid]
Wilhelm von Schlüssel	1980.01.22	Only a mundane M.D. [can be] "the Healer." WVS [9] [LoAR 22 Jan 80], p. 3
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