Definition of Physic

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Physic

The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

A physician.

To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

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Physic Quotations

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.
Francis Bacon

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.
James Lind

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.
Henry James Sumner Maine

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
William Drummond

The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.
James Smith

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