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Brewer's: Doctor My-Book
Dr. John Abernethy, so called because he used to say to his patients, “Read my book ”—on Surgical Observations. (1765-1830.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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