Noah Webster
Physic
PHYS'IC, noun s as z. [Gr. from nature; to produce.]
1. The art of healing diseases. This is now generally called medicine.
2. Medicines; remedies for diseases. We desire physic only for the sake of health.
3. In popular language, a medicine that purges; a purge; a cathartic. [In technical and elegant language this sense is not used.]
PHYS'IC, verb transitive To treat with physic; to evacuate the bowels with a cathartic; to purge.
1. To cure.