Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Physician

Physician (fi*zish"an) , noun

[Old English fisician, fisicien, Old French physucien, a physician, in French, a natural philosopher, an experimentalist in physics. See Physic.]

1.
A person skilled in medicine, or the art of healing; especially, one trained and licensed to treat illness and prescribe medicines; a doctor of medicine.
2.
Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.