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doctor with verb phrase To treat with, apply as a remedy to. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1939 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) She’d doctor with boneset tea. 1969 GSMNP-44:14 Back them days doctors didn’t have much to doctor with, and old John doctored old man Conner and he just looked like he was going to die. 1973 GSMNP-76:35 They was lots of old medicine they had to doctor with. 1996 GSMNPOHP-1:4 About the only thing that we had in here to doctor with was whiskey.