doctorings

Au reste, I can quite sympathise with your contempt for all 'doctorings' from 'old women, 'by which I mean all unauthorised practitioners.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

The owner tried all sorts of doctorings: he used colouring matter — indigo, kurkuma, chrome, copper vitriol — he had it rolled in hogsheads with leaden bullets.

Shallow Soil 2003

But you know, they're using it for certain doctorings and ideas is a big catastrophe.

CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2003 2003

Among primitive peoples these ceremonies, dietings, doctorings, tabooings, number legion, as may be read in Ploss and Zmigrodzki.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The owner tried all sorts of doctorings: he used colouring matter -- indigo, kurkuma, chrome, copper vitriol -- he had it rolled in hogsheads with leaden bullets.

Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905

Leicesters, and Black-faced Downs, to assist at the feedings and washings and doctorings and shearings, to follow the crossings and recrossings and crossings again, that bred new varieties as if they were roses, to trace the processes by which the Argentine pampas supply novel resources to the

The Wild Olive Basil King 1893

Their better or worse lyceums, and preachings, and doctorings, these, too, are accidental, and the malls of commons are always small potatoes.

Cape Cod 1865