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1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xvii. 131 The man said, ‘..he could not take Doctor's stuff, if he died for it’.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 171 Ye lowns that troke in doctor's stuff, You'll now hae unco slaisters.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xv. 171 Like doctor-stuff generally, it is not as appetizing as desirable.

1924 J. C. Lincoln Rugged Water xviii. 354 I don't know what this doctor stuff is, but it generally soothes him down and gets him to sleep again. Some kind of morphine or such dratted trash, I presume likely.

1945 Strand Mag. Nov. 36/1 Mr. Chislehurst..was a chemist... He didn't work at a shop, making up doctor's stuff. He was very clever, and exercised his cleverness in a place which Mrs. Pigeon called a lab-oratory.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 255 I..did compound for her A certaine stuffe, which being tane, would cease The present powre of life. View more context for this quotation

1636 in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1863) 2 213 Paid Mr. Stammer for a glasse of stuff sent to the sick folkes, 1s. 0d.

1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 298 Your very kind letter..did me more good, I think, than any of my doctor's stuff.

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 17 Sandy tipp'd him a dose of that kind, that, when taken, It is n't the stuff, but the patient that's shaken.

1847 C. J. Lever Knight of Gwynne xvii The old doctor..tore a leaf out of his pocket-book to order me some stuff for the cough.