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In The Story of Doctor Dolittle, the author writes,
But the Cat’s-meat-Man wasn’t very rich and he only got sick once a year—at Christmas-time, when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.
Is the implication that the man gets drunk every Christmas and is given treatment for his hangover?
I understand this as the Cats' Meat Man giving Dr Dolittle a Christmas present, disguised as a purchase of medicine that he doesn't need.
