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Doctored Dice Loaded dice.
   To doctor the accounts. To falsify them. They are ill (so far as you are concerned) and you falsify them to make them look better. The allusion is to drugging wine, beer, etc., and to adulteration generally.

Dr. Diafoirus in Molière's Malade Ìmaginaire. A man of fossilised ideas, who, like the monk, refused to change his time-honoured mumpsimus (q.v.), for the new-fangled sumpsimus. Dr. Diafoirus used to say, what was good enough for his forefathers was good enough for their posterity, and he had no patience with the modern fads about the rotundity of the earth, its motion round the sun, the circulation of the blood, and all such stuff.

Dr. Dove The hero of Southey's Doctor.

Dr. Fell I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. A correspondent of Notes and Queries says the author was Tom Brown, who wrote Dialogues of the Dead, and the person referred to was Dr. Fell, Dean of Christchurch (1625-1686), who expelled him, but said he would remit the sentence if he translated the thirty-third Epigram of Martial:

"Non amo te, Zabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te."

"I do not like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know, I know full well,
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell." T.Brown.

Doctor Mirabilis Roger Bacon (1214-1292).

Doctor My-Book Dr. John Abernethy, so called because he used to say to his patients, "Read my book " - on Surgical Observations. (1765-1830.)

Dr. Rezio or Pedro Rezio of Aguero. The doctor of Barataria, who forbade Sancho Panza to taste any of the meats set before him. Roasted partridge was forbidden by Hippocrates; podrida was the most pernicious food in the world; rabbits are a sharp-haired diet; veal is prejudicial to health; but the governor might eat a "few wafers, and a thin slice or two of quince." (Don Quixote, part ii. book iii. chap. 10.)

Dr. Sangrado of Valladolid, a tall, meagre, pale man, of very solemn appearance, who weighed every word he uttered, and gave an emphasis to his sage dicta. "His reasoning was geometrical, and his opinions angular." He said to the licentiate Sedillo, who was sick, "If you had drunk nothing else but pure water all your life, and eaten only such simple food as boiled apples, you would not now be tormented with gout." He then took from him six porringers of blood to begin with; in three hours he repeated the operation; and again the next day, saying: "It is a gross error to suppose that blood is necessary for life." With this depletion, the patient was to drink two or three pints of hot water every two hours. The result of this treatment was death "from obstinacy." (Gil Blas, chap. ii.)

Doctor Slop An enthusiast, who thinks the world hinges on getting Uncle Toby to understand the action of a new medical instrument. (Sterne: Tristram Shandy.)
   A nickname given by William Hone to Sir John Stoddart, editor of the New Times. (1773-1856.)

Doctor Squintum George Whitefield, so called by Foote in his farce entitled The Minor. (1714-1770.)
   Theodore Hook applied the same sobriquet to the Rev. Edward Irving, who had an obliquity of the eyes. (1792- 1834.)

Doctor Syntax A simple-minded, pious henpecked clergyman, very simpleminded, but of excellent taste and scholarship, who left home in search of the picturesque. His adventures are told in eight-syllable verse in The Tour of Dr. Syntax, by William Combe. (See Duke Combe.)
   Dr. Syntax's horse. Grizzle, all skin and bone. (See Horse.)