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doctor's stuff en · NOUN
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) medicine
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: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: