These days, asking the pharmacist for a physic to relieve your constipation will probably get you a blank stare; it's an old fashioned, rarely used term for "laxative."
The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
Noun
a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
n.
The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the
theory or practice of medicine.
n.
A specific internal application for the cure or relief of
sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.
n.
Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.
n.
A physician.
v. t.
To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine
to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
v. t.
To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.
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The labor we delight in physics pain.
A mind diseased no remedy can physic.
The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
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