A choleric physician in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
Dr. Slop. Sir John Stoddart, M.D., a choleric physician who assailed Napoleon most virulently in The Times, of which he was editor. (1773–1856.)
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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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