DCHP-3

root doctor

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a herbalist.

Quotations

1821
"My dear good lady," cried the doctor, "I'll bet a pint of spirits I'll raise you in five days, and make you so spry, that you'll dance upon this floor."--"Oh!" said the woman, "if I had but the root doctor that used to attend our family at Connecticut; he was a dreadful skeelful man."
1846
. . . when he was off Jeffery without my knowledge sent to Fingal for a famous Root Doctor who came and after minutely examining her, gave her some powder which removed the fever in a very short space of time. . . .