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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #49939 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

physitianPhysician

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

Puritas changed it
4,380 times in 1,300 works
Consistency
96.0% (4,380 of 4,562)
Reach if approved
~4,794 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: physician
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
4,563 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
phycisian (179)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,380 changes in 1,300 works, 96.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,380)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … hold and binde him; Impatiens agrotus crudelem medicum facit, an impatient patient makes a PhyſitianPhysician more cruell, then otherwiſe he would bee: So God would deale more gently with …
    With rule
    … hold and binde him; Impatiens agrotus crudelem medicum facit, an impatient patient makes a PhyſitianPhysician more cruell, then otherwiſe he would bee: So God would deale more gently with …

    Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of a diſeaſe in the Common-wealth. For the King is the Common-wealths PhyſitianPhysician. By King, we may vnderſtand euery man in authority, by going out of his …
    With rule
    … of a diſeaſe in the Common-wealth. For the King is the Common-wealths PhyſitianPhysician. By King, we may vnderſtand euery man in authority, by going out of his …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 204 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and acknowledge himselfe to bee in the wrong? Can a man seck for a PhysitianPhysician except first he finde and acknowledge himself to be diseased? Therefore if we would …
    With rule
    … and acknowledge himselfe to bee in the wrong? Can a man seck for a PhysitianPhysician except first he finde and acknowledge himself to be diseased? Therefore if we would …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Pilot to conduct vs, if we be ſicke we wish for the moſt excellent PhyſitianPhysician to cure vs: and shall we be ſo ſence-les, and infatuated, as to …
    With rule
    … Pilot to conduct vs, if we be ſicke we wish for the moſt excellent PhyſitianPhysician to cure vs: and shall we be ſo ſence-les, and infatuated, as to …

    Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of God. In the Goſpell the phraſe is this, The whole need not the PhyſitianPhysician. He thinkes himſelfe well, and therefore what need he goe to Phyſick? And it …
    With rule
    … of God. In the Goſpell the phraſe is this, The whole need not the PhyſitianPhysician. He thinkes himſelfe well, and therefore what need he goe to Phyſick? And it …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … their frindes or foes. Ambroſe commendeth highly Fabritius the Romane, who perceiuing that a PhyſitianPhysician offred to poyſon Pyrrhus his Kingſent the traitour backe againe to his Maſter, to …
    With rule
    … their frindes or foes. Ambroſe commendeth highly Fabritius the Romane, who perceiuing that a PhyſitianPhysician offred to poyſon Pyrrhus his Kingſent the traitour backe againe to his Maſter, to …

    Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    4 Aduise with the PhysitianPhysician of thy soule, and follow his godly direction, and desire him to pray for …
    With rule
    4 Aduise with the PhysitianPhysician of thy soule, and follow his godly direction, and desire him to pray for …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 515 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … could discerne) though not in her Memory. Consider therefore O Man (as that excellent PhysitianPhysician of the Soule aduiseth thee) if thou canst beare with a fraile Body, that …
    With rule
    … could discerne) though not in her Memory. Consider therefore O Man (as that excellent PhysitianPhysician of the Soule aduiseth thee) if thou canst beare with a fraile Body, that …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05604

  • Printed
    … bnt for that, to ſay nothing of my owne experience, as I AM A PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN, nor of what I haue heard from the moſt famous of that profeſſion of …
    With rule
    … bnt for that, to ſay nothing of my owne experience, as I AM A PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN, nor of what I haue heard from the moſt famous of that profeſſion of …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05611

  • Printed
    … bnt for that, to ſay nothing of my owne experience, as I AM A PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN, nor of what I haue heard from the moſt famous of that profeſſion of …
    With rule
    … bnt for that, to ſay nothing of my owne experience, as I AM A PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN, nor of what I haue heard from the moſt famous of that profeſſion of …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A30615

  • Printed
    4 The ENGLISH PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN; being an Aſtrologo-Phyſical Diſcourſe of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is …
    With rule
    4 The ENGLISH PHYSITIANPHYSICIAN; being an Aſtrologo-Phyſical Diſcourſe of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Two Treatises · Open in the reader