he-doctor

Updated: May 27, 2025

'Not when he never comes anigh you, says she, 'and lets you go half way to meet your diseases. 'I don't know for that, says I, and indeed I haan't a notion what she meant, for my part; but says I, 'I don't want no women folk to come here a-doctoring o' me, that's sartin. So she said, 'But suppose you were very ill, and the he-doctor three miles off, and fifty others to visit afore you? 'That is no odds, says I; 'I would not be doctored by a woman. Then she says to me, says she, 'Now you look me in the face. 'I can do that, says I; 'you, or anybody else.

Charles Reade - A Woman-Hater