physic

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It all started back in 1670, when two Edinburgh doctors - Robert Sibbald and Andrew Balfour - set up a physic garden, to explore the links between plants and medicine, for the benefit of society.

From BBC

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

From Washington Post

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

From Literature

Phusis became the source of physic, which at first meant natural science and later was the word for medicine.

From Literature

"How to live with physic wounds? How to live with moral wounds?"

From US News