half-doctor

Updated: July 26, 2025

But I have a far better medicine under my hands here. This moment I will make you a purge to the purpose." And then the learned man, half-doctor, half-divine, chanted again the sacred incantation as he bent over his pestle and mortar, saying: Ex carne et sanguine Christi!

Alexander Whyte - Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)