Meaning of doctorcraft | Babel Free

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The skills and expertise of a doctor; medicine.

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Examples

“There have been kingcraft and lawyercraft, doctorcraft, and many other crafts beside, each virulent in proportion to the completeness of the mystery and of the monopoly.”

“So it was with respect to the Poison Bill, which is now a dead letter, merely because it was found that doctorcraft, being the principal meddlers with poisons, they could not be interfered with.”

“[…] for even to the latter the arm of persecution reaches, the plea of doctorcraft being that the people are to be saved from themselves.”

“The Despotism of doctorcraft!”

“"I am," he gasconaded, "like a huge rough stone rolling down from a high mountain, and the only polish I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force against religious bigotry, priestcraft, lawyercraft, doctorcraft, lying editors, suborned judges, jurors, and the authority of perjured executives, backed by mobs, blasphemers, licentious and corrupt men and women, all hell knocking off a corner here and there.”

“'Doctorcraft', as Mrs Lowe called it, would, 'like priestcraft, enslave us all', and must be replaced by the cool common sense of the ordinary man.”

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