... such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry.

[Peter Jiong]

It was a fine, thick piece of wood..known as a “Penang lawyer.” “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.

(From Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Does that mean "old-fashioned doctors often carried it in the past, old fashioned doctors don't carry it now" ? or "used to" here doesn't mean "in the past but not now"?

 

[5jj]

It means "old-fashioned doctors often carried it in the past; doctors don't carry it now".

 

[Rover_KE]

The finest Penang lawyer walking sticks (AE canes) are made of ebony and topped with solid silver handles — often inscribed or decorated with ornate designs.