water doctorn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtə ˌdɒktə/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdər ˌdɑktər/,

/ˈwɑdər ˌdɑktər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., doctor n.

Etymology: < water n. + doctor n. In the specific use in sense ‘hydropathist’ (see sense 1) after German Wasserarzt (1829 or earlier).

Now historical.

1. A physician or other practitioner who advocates the consumption or external application of water; (in later use) spec. a practitioner administering the water cure, a hydropathist. Frequently derogatory.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > advocating specific treatments > water treatment

water doctor1736

steam-doctor1830

water-curer1840

hydropath1842

hydriatrist1843

hydropathist1847

balneologist1872

1736 Impartial Enq. Present State Brit. Distillery 41 Long quotations of an Anonymous Physician, describing many cases in which Spirituous Liquors may be pernicious; to which he has has tack'd the sentiments of a famous Water Doctor in his Essay on Health.

1826 Lancet 18 Feb. 705/1 The water poets of other days..deserved all the encouragement that could be given them, but we doubt very much whether their successors, a certain order of the faculty who may be called water-doctors, should experience the same courtesy.

1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Confess. Water-patient 43 The peculiar ‘crisis’, sought for so vehemently by the German water-doctors.

1880 J. M. Gully Water-cure in Chronic Dis. 318 ‘Drink as much as he pleases—the more the better’ (a not infrequent instruction with routine water doctors).

1908 T. D. Luke Man. Nat. Therapy i. 8 In the latter country [sc. Germany] the unqualified and empirical ‘water doctor’ has been the more common type.

2002 J. Bradley in W. Ernst Plural Med., Trad. & Modernity ii. 25 Some water doctors, usually unqualified, held dispensaries in major cities.

2. derogatory. A person who diagnoses illness on the basis of the visual inspection of urine, a uroscopist; (more generally) a medical quack; = water-caster n. 1.

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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > diagnostician > by urine

water-caster1603

water-monger1623

piss-prophet1625

urine-monger1625

urine-prophet1654

waterologer1654

urine -caster1763

urine-doctor1815

urinoscopist1836

water doctor1848

urine-inspector1863

uroscopist1889

1763 London Mag. Apr. 206/1 He fond me out onct, for swarin falsly for the Grek Water Doctor.

1777 J. Leake Med. Instr. Dis. Women 34 Water-doctors..pretend to discover the face of the disease on the surface of the urine.

1801 Sporting Mag. 17 8 Mrs. Mayersbatch, widow of the celebrated Water-Doctor of that name.

1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 876/2 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.

1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1287/2 More important and more rare was the water doctor... People went to him with a flask containing the ‘night water’.

1987 R. Porter in W. F. Bynum & R. Porter Med. Fringe & Med. Orthodoxy iv. 59 Pro-Myersbach pamphlets make much of the claim that where regulars had failed, the water-doctor had eased pain and sped recovery.

2003 O. Davies Cunning-folk iv. 106 James Haywood..had his suspicions that she had bewitched him confirmed by a ‘cunning-man’ and ‘water doctor’ named Manning of Coughton.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	water doctor
释义	water doctorn. Brit. /ˈwɔːtə ˌdɒktə/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌdɑktər/, /ˈwɑdər ˌdɑktər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., doctor n. Etymology: < water n. + doctor n. In the specific use in sense ‘hydropathist’ (see sense 1) after German Wasserarzt (1829 or earlier). Now historical. 1. A physician or other practitioner who advocates the consumption or external application of water; (in later use) spec. a practitioner administering the water cure, a hydropathist. Frequently derogatory. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > advocating specific treatments > water treatment water doctor1736 steam-doctor1830 water-curer1840 hydropath1842 hydriatrist1843 hydropathist1847 balneologist1872 1736 Impartial Enq. Present State Brit. Distillery 41 Long quotations of an Anonymous Physician, describing many cases in which Spirituous Liquors may be pernicious; to which he has has tack'd the sentiments of a famous Water Doctor in his Essay on Health. 1826 Lancet 18 Feb. 705/1 The water poets of other days..deserved all the encouragement that could be given them, but we doubt very much whether their successors, a certain order of the faculty who may be called water-doctors, should experience the same courtesy. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Confess. Water-patient 43 The peculiar ‘crisis’, sought for so vehemently by the German water-doctors. 1880 J. M. Gully Water-cure in Chronic Dis. 318 ‘Drink as much as he pleases—the more the better’ (a not infrequent instruction with routine water doctors). 1908 T. D. Luke Man. Nat. Therapy i. 8 In the latter country [sc. Germany] the unqualified and empirical ‘water doctor’ has been the more common type. 2002 J. Bradley in W. Ernst Plural Med., Trad. & Modernity ii. 25 Some water doctors, usually unqualified, held dispensaries in major cities. 2. derogatory. A person who diagnoses illness on the basis of the visual inspection of urine, a uroscopist; (more generally) a medical quack; = water-caster n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > diagnostician > by urine water-caster1603 water-monger1623 piss-prophet1625 urine-monger1625 urine-prophet1654 waterologer1654 urine -caster1763 urine-doctor1815 urinoscopist1836 water doctor1848 urine-inspector1863 uroscopist1889 1763 London Mag. Apr. 206/1 He fond me out onct, for swarin falsly for the Grek Water Doctor. 1777 J. Leake Med. Instr. Dis. Women 34 Water-doctors..pretend to discover the face of the disease on the surface of the urine. 1801 Sporting Mag. 17 8 Mrs. Mayersbatch, widow of the celebrated Water-Doctor of that name. 1848 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 7) 876/2 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. 1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1287/2 More important and more rare was the water doctor... People went to him with a flask containing the ‘night water’. 1987 R. Porter in W. F. Bynum & R. Porter Med. Fringe & Med. Orthodoxy iv. 59 Pro-Myersbach pamphlets make much of the claim that where regulars had failed, the water-doctor had eased pain and sped recovery. 2003 O. Davies Cunning-folk iv. 106 James Haywood..had his suspicions that she had bewitched him confirmed by a ‘cunning-man’ and ‘water doctor’ named Manning of Coughton. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1736
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