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Doctor My-Book

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Dr. John Aberneʹthy, so called because he used to say to his patients, “Read my book”—on Surgical Observations. (1765–1830.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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