Our doctors say, this is no month to bleed. Richard II., Act I., Sc. I.
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur’d me; But now I am past all * * * Henry VIII., Act IV., Sc. II.
’Tis time to give ’em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching. Henry VIII., Act I., Sc. III.
He brings his physic After his patient’s death. Henry VIII., Act III., Sc. II.
I will not cast away my physic, but on those that are sick. As You Like It, Act III., Sc. II.
To jump a body with a dangerous physic That’s sure of death without it. Coriolanus, Act III., Sc. I.
Doctors give physic by way of prevention. Swift.
The ignorant and superstitious were of the opinion that poisons could be prepared so that the effect could be produced at certain periods after their ingestion. They were also in error in the thought that poisons caused great swelling of the body.
She did confess she had For you a mortal mineral; which, being took, Should by the minute feed on life, and, lingering, By inches waste you. Cymbeline, Act V., Sc. V.
All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, Now ’gins to bite the spirits. Tempest, Act III., Sc. III.