"water doctor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: water doctors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} water doctor (plural water doctors)
  1. (medicine, archaic) A physician who treats diseases with water; a hydropathist. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-water_doctor-en-noun-d-uZjw~E Topics: medicine, sciences
  2. (medicine, archaic) One who claims to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-water_doctor-en-noun-jKUkVXzq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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