doctress

• “Indeed, some of these women attained the designation of "doctress" in official reports of the day.”

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• “Again and again Borrow, throughout his life, suffered from some nervous ailment which defied definition; thus, when he was fifteen, his strength and appetite deserted him and he pined and drooped, but an ancient female, a kind of doctress, who had been his nurse in his infancy, gave him a decoction of a bitter root growing on commons and desolate places, from which he took draughts till he was convalescent.”

  Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913

• “The wife of Edward Good was sought out in 1678 to cure a head sore and another "doctress" impressed the”

  Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699

• “A 'doctress' was one who used African herbal remedies to heal the sick and afflicted.”

  Voice Online

• “Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1857), she stated her father to be a soldier of Scottish descent (possibly James Grant of the 60th Regiment of Foot) and her Creole mother to be the keeper of a Kingston hotel, Blundell Hall, and a well respected 'doctress', skilled in the traditional African use of herbal remedies.”

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• “ancient female, a kind of doctress," with a decoction of "a bitter root which grows on commons and desolate places.”

  George Borrow The Man and His Books

• “February 6th, 2008 at 12: 47 pm chodin says: lisa rinna is to interviews as doctress leisa is to commenting.”

  EVERYTHING’S COMIN’ UP AFFLECK

• “Atleast that old ass bitch doctress has no nazi rule here.”

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• “There were sixteen men in pursuit of the doctress, and sixteen gun-shot wounds were found in her body when examined by the surgeon of the post.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

• “Finally these peculiar customs brought about the punishment of a noted doctress of the Rogue River tribe, a woman who was constantly working in this professional way, and who had found a victim of such prominence among the Rogue Rivers that his unlooked for death brought down on her the wrath of all.”

  Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories

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