ˈkitchen-ˈphysic humorous.
Nourishment for an invalid, suitable for ‘feeding up’.
| 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park) V. 406 If I be ill at ease, I take kitchyn physicke, I make my wife my doctor, and my garden my apoticaries shop. 1658 Sir. T. Mayerne's Archim. Anglo-Gall. Pref. 2 The Excellency of Kitchin-physick, beyond all Gally pots. 1738 Swift Pol. Conversat. ii. 154 Well, after all, Kitchen-Physic is the best Physic. 1863 J. L. W. By-gone Days 5 The Manse..being the resort of the sick and aged..when in want of what the minister's wife termed ‘kitchen physic’. |
So ˈkitchen phyˈsician.
| 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl IV. i. 21 The fever took its departure, and left Rosa in the hands of an excellent kitchen physician. |