For gold in physic is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
And there was one specific which, from a double point of view, Chaucer's Doctor of Physic esteemed very highly, and was loth to part with on frivolous pretexts.
Being very skillful in the use of mortars, he was held by Mr. Davis as a most proper person to command a southern army, inasmuch as he could give the Yankees all the physic they wanted in the shortest time.
Now, my son, the eccentric French gentleman, of whom I have spoken as capable of administering physic enough to settle the question with the Yankees, soon became an object of great admiration with his noisy people.
Their great misery was that they were deaf to good advice, obstinately hating and despising both physic and physician; for if they would have either quitted or changed, they might have been cured.
I know that precious physic of old Duffham's is upsetting me.
And now good-evening to you, lad, for I must send the physic in.
Just so misguided is the judgment of the physician who prescribes physic or tonics in the case of a person having a foul intestinal canal, a condition destructive of the absorbent and the excretory glands.
Physic increases the depletion of the intestinal juices.
The abominable, aboriginal and almost universal custom at the present time of giving some physic to "cleanse" the gastro-intestinal canal is in every respect a deplorable mistake for a conscientious doctor to make.
This is certainly the best physic for prevention, and very often the most effectual against a present distemper.
As for myself, the only physic which has brought me safe to almost the age of man, and which I prescribe to all my friends, is abstinence.
Poetry to physic is indeed like the gilding to a pill; it makes the art shine, and covers the severity of the doctor with the agreeableness of the companion.
I believe I have seen twenty mountebanks that have given physicto the Czar of Muscovy.
Lilly[153] in the studies both of physic and astrology, to which he added that of poetry, as was to be seen both upon the sign where he lived, and in the bills which he distributed.
As overvaluing men's own understandings in religion, is the ruin of souls and churches; so overvaluing men's raw, unexperienced apprehensions in physic costeth multitudes their lives.
Apollo was a doctor of physic as well as a doctor of divinity, and Dryden, we are told, took his physic whenever he wanted to borrow his inspiration.
The doctor pursuing his triumph, asked the gentleman, "If he did not understand physic as well as surgery.
A physic of castor or linseed oil should be given occasionally.
This physic may be repeated in from twelve to eighteen hours if necessary.
It is usually advisable to give ewes and sows a physic if their young develop a diarrhoea.
It is advisable to give the animal a physic of oil.
The alimentary tract is relieved of the irritating material by giving the animal a physic of castor or linseed oil.
The treatment consists in giving a physic of linseed or castor oil.
Mothers that are heavy milkers may be given a physic the second or third day following birth.
The midmost region battered and destroyed, When nature cannot work, the effect of art is void; For physic can but mend our crazy state, Patch an old building, not a new create.
He afterwards took a medical degree at Cambridge, and practisedphysic at Exeter.
Must drunkards, lechers, spent with sinning, live With such helps as broths, possets, physic give?
Lippi, Licentiate in Physic of the army of Paris, an account of a petrified Beehive, discovered on the mountains of Siout, in Upper Egypt.
You cannot but with trouble put your hand Into your pocket to discharge a reckoning, And this we sons of physic do call chiragra, A kind of cramp, or hand-gout.
As the Indian ink and paper can do no harm, and often act as an emetic, they are probably more innocent than the physic administered by eastern physicians, who are the most ignorant of their profession.
The skilful veterinary surgeon should be consulted; he will probably recommend physic to cool the system, the foetus and placenta to be buried, the animal separated, and the cow-house disinfected.
There is little risk with a heifer with her first calf, and I never bleed or physic a heifer in calf, because she has not attained her growth.
I now bleed and physic every cow two or three days before calving.
Many remove it immediately; this, however, should never be allowed, as the cow will chew it greedily, and it acts as physic to her.
At one time he pounded drugs for an apothecary near London Bridge; at another, he attempted to practise physic amongst the poorest of the poor.
The man of physic marched each day like a god into Gorlois's house to tell how the Lady Igraine fared at his hands.
The girls aped him behind his back, and Igraine, with some ingratitude to science, made Lilith empty the ruby-coloured physicout of the window.
The truth is, nothing could have kept her at home but the accident of her having taken physic before she knew the nature of the entertainment.
DEAR DICK, I have done with the waters; therefore your advice comes a day too late I grant that physic is no mystery of your making.
When a physic is to be given one should rest the horse and give him sloppy feed until the medicine begins to operate; clothe the body with a warm blanket; keep out of drafts; give only warm water in small quantities.
At first we should administer a light physic and follow this up with sedatives and anodynes, as directed for contused wounds.
There is always danger of superpurgation if a physic is given to a horse suffering from diseases of the respiratory organs.
A physic should be given, and the horse receive 1 ounce of powdered saltpeter three times a day in his water or feed.
Whichever physic is selected, it is essential that a full dose be given.
Treatment in the early stages consists in a dose of physic (aloes 6 drams) and fomentations of warm water to the sheath and penis.
A physic should always be given as early as possible in flatulent colic, the best being Barbados aloes in the dose already mentioned.
A physic of Barbados aloes, 1 ounce, should be given as soon as possible after the accident.
Yet doth some wholesomephysic for the mind Wrapp'd in this paper lie, Which in the taking if you misapply, You are unkind.
Tell Physicof her boldness, Tell Skill it is pretension, Tell Charity of coldness, Tell Law it is contention; And as they do reply, So give them still the lie.
Hayes will certainly not recover as soon as I do, for she has all the aversion of her class tophysic and spare diet.
Enter a Doctor of Physicand a Waiting Gentlewoman.
She doesn't want Jim to see too much of her at first, but to get used to the blinding glare by degrees, and take his physic in small doses, until he can bear it in larger.
The patient must tell his symptoms, and then the doctor will give him the physic he needs, and proceed to make a new man of him.
Willard manifested a prudent regard to the observances of the Catholic ceremonial; and was soon in full practice of physicamong the people.
