doctor (n.)

doctor (v.)

After death the doctor.

George Herbert (1593-1632): Jacula Prudentum.

But when ill indeed,

E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

George Colman, The Younger (1762-1836): Lodgings for Single Gentlemen.

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,

The reason why I cannot tell;

But this alone I know full well,

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

Tom Brown (1663-1704): Laconics.

Better to hunt in fields for health unbought

Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.

The wise for cure on exercise depend;

God never made his work for man to mend.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton. Line 92.

Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): The Conduct of Life. Considerations by the Way.

And when the physician said, "Sir, you are an old man," "That happens," replied Pausanias, "because you never were my doctor."

Plutarch (46(?)-120(?) a d): Laconic Apophthegms. Of Pausanias the Son of Phistoanax.

Is there no hope? the sick man said;

The silent doctor shook his head.

John Gay (1688-1732): Fables. Part i. The Sick Man and the Angel.