subs. (old).—1. Pot-herbs; and (2) victuals.
1592. GREENE, A Quip for an Upstart Courtier [Harleian Miscellany, V. 406]. For my selfe, if I be ill at ease, I take KITCHYN PHYSICKE; I make my wife my doctor, and my garden my apothecaries shop.
1641. MILTON, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, § 2. Nothing will cure this man’s understanding, but some familiar, and KITCHEN PHYSICK.… Call hither your Cook!
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. A little KITCHEN-PHYSIC will set him up; he has more need of a cook than a doctor.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
