Verb (common).—1. To patch; adulterate; falsify; ‘cook.’
1837. R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends [ed. 1862], p. 464. She
doctor’d the punch and she doctor’d the negus, Taking care not to
put in sufficient to flavour it.
1862. H. Greeley, in N. Y. Independent. The news [of success to the
United States armies, said the English leading journals] all came
through Northern channels, and was doctored by the government which
controlled the telegraph.