physic

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A spiritual adviser to Oprah Winfrey and purveyor of physic memorabilia online, Williamson spent about a year seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023

Lord Sands in “Henry VIII”: ’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases are grown so catching.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

Greenall’s Berkeley Square London Dry Gin summons, for him, “the atmosphere of an English physic garden in summer.”

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2012

They were shattered when "President Roosevelt recognized Franco the moment Madrid fell�like a man who has taken a physic, as Canby said, and can't wait to get to the bathroom."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck