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saddlebag doctor
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in the early days of settlement in the West, a doctor who did his rounds on horseback, carrying his instruments, medicines, etc. in his saddlebags.
See: saddlebag surgeon
Quotations
1957
There were [in Upper Canada] circuit-riding clergymen, saddle-bag doctors, and self-sacrificing mid-wives.