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- noun Obsolete spelling of
physic .
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Examples
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Dr. Henry Willoughby of Rappahannock County, Virginia, left forty-four books on "phisick" in his estate.
Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 Thomas Proctor Hughes
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God Grant that we may all go comfortably thro the Distemper, the phisick part is bad enough I know.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 13 - 14 July 1776 1963
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We did not take so much phisick as many others neither.
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(And so it was in dead; for he had bene busy at his comptis with Maistres Marioun Ogilbye [441] that nycht, who was espyed to departe frome him by the previe posterne that morning; and tharefor qwyetness, after the reuillis of phisick, and a morne sleap [442] was requisite for My Lord.)
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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In the very earliest days of the colony means had been taken to present the planting of the pernicious weed except in very small quantities "for meere necessitie, for phisick, for preseruaceon of health, and that the same be taken privatly by auncient men."
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Sassafras, called by the inhabitantes Winauk, a kinde of wood of most pleasand and sweete smel; and of most rare vertues in phisick for the cure of many diseases.
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Erasmus. yor honors mery humor is best phisick et tu Erasmus an
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Sassafras, called by the inhabitantes Winauk, a kinde of wood of most pleasand and sweete smel; and of most rare vertues in phisick for the cure of many diseases.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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Oh I knowe you liue in Courte, and the Courte diett, is only freend to phisick
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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They are all at Hartford: but I heard since that your sister Elisabeth was ill of hir head last weeke and was taking phisick the morning when the last messinger came thence.
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