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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10717 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physitiansPhysicians

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
2,270 times in 996 works
Consistency
99.8% (2,270 of 2,274)
Reach if approved
~2,390 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: physicians
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,275 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,270 changes in 996 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,270)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be not poſſible I will acknowledge mine errour. Adde heerevnto that experience ſheweth (as PhyſitiansPhysicians ſay) how ſom diſeaſes in the Body bring Death preſently after moſt ſtrong and …
    With rule
    … be not poſſible I will acknowledge mine errour. Adde heerevnto that experience ſheweth (as PhyſitiansPhysicians ſay) how ſom diſeaſes in the Body bring Death preſently after moſt ſtrong and …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or Patients, who waite to haue acceſſe to their learned Counſell, and to the PhyſitiansPhysicians, whoſe aduiſe they ſeeke for: Yea, let vs ſeeke for that inward teaching of …
    With rule
    … or Patients, who waite to haue acceſſe to their learned Counſell, and to the PhyſitiansPhysicians, whoſe aduiſe they ſeeke for: Yea, let vs ſeeke for that inward teaching of …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    In all these accidents and occasions the Philosophers (and physitiansPhysicians also who build upon the ground of Philosophy, nor can well subsist without them …
    With rule
    In all these accidents and occasions the Philosophers (and physitiansPhysicians also who build upon the ground of Philosophy, nor can well subsist without them …

    Thomas Bedford · A Strange Birth at Stone-House · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … giue house-roome to seauen Deuils. He that should reade and obserue the great PhysitiansPhysicians dissection of mans heart. Math. 15. Out of the heart proceed euil thoughts, murders, adulteries …
    With rule
    … giue house-roome to seauen Deuils. He that should reade and obserue the great PhysitiansPhysicians dissection of mans heart. Math. 15. Out of the heart proceed euil thoughts, murders, adulteries …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not, with Pope Iulius, feede vpon Swines fleſh, or ſome other diſh by his PhyſitiansPhysicians forbidden him in regard of ſome diſeaſe hanging vpon him, likely to be his …
    With rule
    … not, with Pope Iulius, feede vpon Swines fleſh, or ſome other diſh by his PhyſitiansPhysicians forbidden him in regard of ſome diſeaſe hanging vpon him, likely to be his …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … had an iſſue of bloud twelve yeares, and had ſuffered many things of many PhyſitiansPhysicians, and had ſpent all that ſhe had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew …
    With rule
    … had an iſſue of bloud twelve yeares, and had ſuffered many things of many PhyſitiansPhysicians, and had ſpent all that ſhe had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … her bloudy iſſue, after that ſhee had ſpent all that ſhe had upon the PhyſitiansPhysicians, and yet was not healed: for theſe are the men to whom God hath …
    With rule
    … her bloudy iſſue, after that ſhee had ſpent all that ſhe had upon the PhyſitiansPhysicians, and yet was not healed: for theſe are the men to whom God hath …

    Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … places infected into the purest aire, are infected, they know not how. How many PhysitiansPhysicians, and Chyrurgions, and nurses, and keepers that have beene wont to visit the infected …
    With rule
    … places infected into the purest aire, are infected, they know not how. How many PhysitiansPhysicians, and Chyrurgions, and nurses, and keepers that have beene wont to visit the infected …

    Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Saints Everlasting Rest A27017

  • Printed
    3. PHysitiansPhysicians that are much about dying men, should in a special maner make conscience of …
    With rule
    3. PHysitiansPhysicians that are much about dying men, should in a special maner make conscience of …

    Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 505 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Divine Raptures A28161

  • Printed
    PHyſitiansPhysicians uſe the Cupping-glaſs to draw
    With rule
    PHyſitiansPhysicians uſe the Cupping-glaſs to draw

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 225 · Open in the reader