In the 17th-century manuscript, the scholar wrote extensively about physicks as the foundation of natural philosophy.

Every spring, the village healer physicks those who fall ill with fever.

The apothecary displayed several physicks behind the counter, each labeled for different ailments.

The village healer physicked the feverish child at dawn, using a bitter tonic to bring relief.

The village healer spent the morning physicking the fevered children with bitter draughts and poultices.

When the fever swept the town, many credited the healer's physicking for their recovery.

The old apothecary's notebook recorded dozens of strange physickings he had performed over the years.

He used the archaic adjective physickal to describe bodily phenomena in his translation of a seventeenth-century medical text.

The apothecary prepared a bitter physick to give to the feverish child.

The country healer promised to physick any traveler who fell ill by the roadside.