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ˈwater-ˌdoctor
a. = water-caster 1.
b. = hydropathist.
1801Sporting Mag. XVII. 8 Mrs. Mayersbatch, widow of the celebrated Water-Doctor of that name. 1846Lytton Conf. Water-patient 43 The peculiar ‘crisis’, sought for so vehemently by the German water-doctors. 1848Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 7), Uromantia.., the art of divining diseases by simple inspection of the urine... One professing to be able to do this is called Uromantes. Vulgarly, a water doctor. 1849E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 198 Some one told me that he was gone or going to the Water Doctor at Malvern. |