root-and-herb

Updated: May 8, 2025

Then she showed me the box an orthodox box containing cigars of a recognized and previously dependable brand. I could only conclude that a root-and-herb doctor had bought an interest in the business and was introducing his own pet notions into the formula.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Speaking of Operations

He was not a horse doctor or a corn doctor or a conjure doctor or a root-and-herb doctor or a healer by faith or the laying on of hands. His title, it seemed, was his by virtue of a degree conferred upon him by a college a white man's college somewhere in the North. His accent was that of a traveled cosmopolite superimposed upon the speech of a place away off somewhere called the West Indies.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Sundry Accounts