physic

• This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber It is interesting that on several occasions Wheatly records the use of 'physic' (cathartics) and notes that the effect of this medication required confinement to the bedroom—but as to his Pepy's renal colic, he places his censoring periods in place of the words painful urination. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1660
• In the news of yesterday a physic was explaining that what LHC will do today is just what nature has done billion times per day so that world will not end ... at least for today.
• Douwa min, ând Sultana Ingleeza_, ("physic from the English Sultana",) is a sort of royal talisman which helps the medicine down as a bit of sugar taken with a child's draught 10th._--The women brought several little children, all ailing, but could do very little for them. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• But in times of war, and in distant lands, soldiers lay their account with roughing it They soon found that a little of the physic which is supposed to be "rough on rats" would have been of advantage; for the very first night many of the men were awakened by those creatures nibbling at their toes! —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
• I say that with Thackeray the physic is always curative and never poisonous. —  Thackeray

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