Definition of "herb-doctor" [herb-doctor]

• One who practises healing by means of herbs or simples. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I am no worshipper of Hygeia, who was the daughter of that old herb-doctor"
• "Back of her chair lay a bundle of white-oak splits for use in her by-trade of basket-weaver; above them hung bundles of drying herbs, for Nancy was a sick-nurse and a bit of an herb-doctor."
• "She asked over and over again about the girls the herb-doctor had cured; and when the day for their departure came she was quite pleased and excited, and walked out through the crowd of sympathetic neighbors."