physic

A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic.

The art or profession of medicine.

To act on as a cathartic.

To cure or heal.

To treat with or as if with medicine.

To treat with physic or medicines; cure; heal; relieve.

To use cathartics or purgatives upon; purge.

To mix with some oxidizing body in order to eliminate phosphorus and sulphur, as in the manufacture of iron.

Physical.

Medicinal.