doctor's stuff

English

Noun

doctor's stuff (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) medicine
   • 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma:

     We taught the people to believe in bottles of doctor's stuff; and now they buy it at the stores instead of consulting a medical man.

   • a. 1993, Stanley Mason, “The Old Age Villanelle”, in Collected poems of Stanley Mason, published 1993:

     I take the doctor's stuff although / It's bitter-tasting, and what's more, / It's not a remedy I know. / Its action seems a trifle slow.