What is "physick"

Usage examples of "physick".

At this moment old Blackstrap advanced, and requested permission to introduce to our notice Jack Physick, an honest lawyer, and, as he said, one of the cleverest fellows and best companions in Bath.

Physicker, and Horace Guester, the first settler in this place, and still prospering.

He held her hand as they sat together in my rooms after the physicks had left, and while he crooned devotion into her ear, she ignored him and blinked dazedly at the floor.

Anguin were returned to the dungeons, whilst I was escorted to my former rooms to await the hour when the physicks would bring me the deadly cup.

Moreover there was a whitish powder to us Invisible somtimes cast upon the Eyes of this Young Woman, whereby her Eyes would be extreamly incommoded, but one time some of this Powder was fallen actually Visible upon her Cheek, from whence the People in the Room wiped it with their Handkerchiefs, and somtimes the Young Woman would also be so bitterly scorched with the unseen Sulphur thrown upon her, that very sensible Blisters would be raised upon her Skin, whereto her Friends found it necessary to apply the Oyl's proper for common Burning, but the most of these Hurts would be cured in two or three days at farthest: I think I may without Vanity pretend to have read not a few of the best System's of Physick that have been yet seen in these American Regions, but I must confess that I have never yet learned the Name of the Natural Distemper, whereto these odd symptoms do belong: However I might suggest perhaps many a Natural Medicine, which would be of singular use against many of them.

Never should an Infirmarian accept a physick prepared by other hands without testing it.

I'll not physick thee for't, I'll leave thee in the knacker's yard, thou cur's-meat.

So Nicholas poisoned him with the physick that was later used in ignorance on Fitzwilliam.