Brewer's: Hill

(Sir John), M. D., botanist (1716-1775). He wrote some farces, which called forth from Garrick the following couplet:

For physic and farces his equal there scarce is. His farces are physic, his physic a farce is,
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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