physic.

The Romans were six hundred years before they received it; and after having made trial of it, banished it from the city at the instance of Cato the Censor, who made it appear how easy it was to live without it, having himself lived fourscore and five years, and kept his wife alive to an extreme old age, not without physic, but without a physician: for everything that we find to be healthful to life may be called physic.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

The Romans were six hundred years before they received it; and after having made trial of it, banished it from the city at the instance of Cato the Censor, who made it appear how easy it was to live without it, having himself lived fourscore and five years, and kept his wife alive to an extreme old age, not without physic, but without a physician: for everything that we find to be healthful to life may be called physic.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 13 Michel de Montaigne 1562

To prevent this, who would not take steel or anything – though I am partly of your opinion that 'tis an ill kind of physic.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

To prevent this, who would not take steel or anything, ” though I am partly of your opinion that 'tis an ill kind of physic.

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901