operation

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Bee-an-nee
English JS Main: 
operation
English: 
A Woman of New South Wales cureing the head ache, the blood which she takes from her own gums she supposes comes along the string from the part affected in the patient. This operation they call Bee-an-nee
Category: 
medical
Source: 
Smith & Wheeler
Page: 
39
Line: 
27
Respelt: 
biya-ni
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
‘Bee-an-nee’ biyani = ‘A Woman of New South Wales cureing the head ache, the blood which she takes from her own gums she supposes comes along the string from the part affected in the patient. This operation they call Bee-an-nee’: Smith & Wheeler [39:27] [BB]
Source Details: 
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp. -------------
Comment: 
Watling 62