physic with a method.

Betsy would have you drummed out of her physic sorority.

He wrote also a medical work, The Urinal of Physic (1548), frequently reprinted.

The infirmary for sick monks, with the physician's house and physic garden, lies to the east.

In 1789 he exchanged his chemistry lectureship for that of the theory and practice of physic; and when the medical college, which he had helped to found, was absorbed by the university of Pennsylvania in 1791 he became professor of the institutes of medicine and of clinical practice, succeeding in 1796 to the chair of the theory and practice of medicine.