doctor's stuff

noun

medicine

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Meanings

noundoctor's stuff (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablemedicine

    We taught the people to believe in bottles of doctor's stuff; and now they buy it at the stores instead of consulting a medical man.

    1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
    1 more example

    I take the doctor's stuff although / It's bitter-tasting, and what's more, / It's not a remedy I know. / Its action seems a trifle slow.

    a. 1993, Stanley Mason, “The Old Age Villanelle”, in Collected poems of Stanley Mason, published 1993
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