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Re: Word meaning
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Freddie Spradlin <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:28:55 -0700
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I'm thinking (guessing) that this was intended to be a form of the word 
physic, meaning a general course of treatment by a doctor

Freddie Spradlin

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Wyles


"Ordered that ye church wardens agree with some doctor to cure Mary Wild of
her ailment, & if she think herself able to undergo a course of Phistic, the
church wardens agree with ye doctors for ye same."



I am trying to understand the meaning of the word "Phistic". Is this a
physical ailment, or a mental ailment, or a course of treatment for an
ailment?  If a course of treatment, what was involved?





Thank you.






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