I mean it’s from the late 1800s. Not sure women were allowed to be doctors then. They might’ve come down with “hysteria” and sawed off the wrong leg. Cause the men were really keeping things in order.
I’ve never considered it’s a person… To me I only associate it as the name of the drink and never thought deeper about where it came from.
Same with Mr. Pibb, and that had the gender right in the name. I just, never thought about it.
This just exploded my mind. I can’t believe how surprising this statement is because I’m exactly the same.
It’s actually an acronym for the Democratic Republic of Pepper.
It was probably added just as a marketing tactic. There were fewer rules about being able to say anything was a medicine, and the use of Dr at the time was a way to trick people into thinking it was medicine.
