DCHP-1 Online
root doctor Obs. 
a herbalist.
- 1821 (1955) "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 (1957) . . . 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. . . .
- 1821 (1955) "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."