Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Bolus
subs. (common).—An apothecary; a doctor.
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1878. J. HATTON, Cruel London, bk. vi., ii. ‘The doctor, up from the Indian bar, came and said I was wanted in London’ … ‘good for old BOLUS,’ said Kernan; ‘and I believe him.’
