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[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY FUTURES COMMAND (USA)]

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Thanks.  And if I had read the OED entry more closely, I would have noticed that.

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> Regarding the last item, I believe cockpit was the naval term used to refer to the holding area for injured sailors during an engagement.
> Over time, cockpits became operating theaters aboard ship.
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 12:06 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY FUTURES COMMAND (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-
> request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> > And perhaps this should be thought of as a special case of theaters,
> > but here it is applied to an operating theater:
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> > _Los Angeles Times_  sec 3 p 1 col 4
> >  "The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery will have another spectacular
> > display
> > -- being, in fact, a full-size representation of the sick-bay of a
> > battleship.  There will be a dispensary with its long line of
> > alcoholic tinctures, upon which even a well Jacky looks with longing
> > eyes, and the whole of its pharmaceutical outfit, a combined sick-bay
> > and operating-room, with its four comfortable berths and its
> > up-to-date glass operating table, and the rest of the accompaniments
> > that make the sick-bay of today a very sunshiny contrast to the gruesome cockpit of a quarter of a century back."
> >
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