water doctor

English

Noun

water doctor (plural water doctors)

1. (medicine, archaic) A physician who treats diseases with water; a hydropathist.
2. (medicine, archaic) One who claims to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “water doctor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)