Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11291 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physickphysic

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 4,968 times in 1,545 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,968 of 4,972)
Reach if approved: ~5,224 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: physic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,972 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,968 changes in 1,545 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,968)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cure the ſoule: they whom he ordereth not, ſetting them in a courſe of phyſickphysic, but letteth them doe what they will, and have what they call for, are …
With rule
… cure the ſoule: they whom he ordereth not, ſetting them in a courſe of phyſickphysic, but letteth them doe what they will, and have what they call for, are …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at all times, to all ages, tempers and diseases. But wisely he varieth his physickphysic, few strips to those that knew not his will, and many stripes for them …
With rule
… at all times, to all ages, tempers and diseases. But wisely he varieth his physickphysic, few strips to those that knew not his will, and many stripes for them …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iudges in matters of juſtice and equity: Miniſters in matters of religion: Phyſitians in phyſickphysic for mens bodies: Artizens in matters of their trades: and ſo others in other …
With rule
… Iudges in matters of juſtice and equity: Miniſters in matters of religion: Phyſitians in phyſickphysic for mens bodies: Artizens in matters of their trades: and ſo others in other …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
… disease distempers the body, and puts it into an estate that is preternaturall: But physickphysic reduces him, restores him as before, and so makes all well with him. So …
With rule
… disease distempers the body, and puts it into an estate that is preternaturall: But physickphysic reduces him, restores him as before, and so makes all well with him. So …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 175 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this is wholſome counſell, therefore conſider it, it is the beſt to have working PhyſickPhysic; oh bleſſe God for that reproof that comes home cloſeſt to the ſoule, though …
With rule
… this is wholſome counſell, therefore conſider it, it is the beſt to have working PhyſickPhysic; oh bleſſe God for that reproof that comes home cloſeſt to the ſoule, though …
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… once, but a wise man will stay it backe. That a joyous heart is physickphysic to the body, but a melancholick disposition drieth the bones. That the masculine minde …
With rule
… once, but a wise man will stay it backe. That a joyous heart is physickphysic to the body, but a melancholick disposition drieth the bones. That the masculine minde …
William Loe · The Incomparable Jewel · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that which the Poets write of Apollo, that taght Aeſcul…pius the rules of PhyſickPhysic: or the Rabbines of the Angell Sanbaſſer, that was Adams Schoolmaſter.
With rule
… that which the Poets write of Apollo, that taght Aeſcul…pius the rules of PhyſickPhysic: or the Rabbines of the Angell Sanbaſſer, that was Adams Schoolmaſter.
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 440 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sonne, husband and wife: there shalbe no more vse of meat, drinke, clothing, respiration, physickphysic, sleepe: and yet for all this, the condition of men shalbe many thousand fold …
With rule
… sonne, husband and wife: there shalbe no more vse of meat, drinke, clothing, respiration, physickphysic, sleepe: and yet for all this, the condition of men shalbe many thousand fold …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 533 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Two Treatises A30615

Printed
3 GALEN's Art of PHYSICKPHYSIC.
With rule
3 GALEN's Art of PHYSICKPHYSIC.
Jeremiah Burroughs · Two Treatises · Open in the reader

The Journals of Parliaments A35827

Printed
PHYSICKPHYSIC.
With rule
PHYSICKPHYSIC.
Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · Open in the reader

The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death A36537

Printed
PHYSICKPHYSIC.
With rule
PHYSICKPHYSIC.
Charles Drelincourt · The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death · Open in the reader