Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to punish, either physically or through depriving of money.

1821		Egan Life in London (1869) 309: If you do not get punished in your person, yet you may be most preciously physicked in your clie.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 134: Physicking—winning a man’s blunt at cards, or other wagers, is ‘giving him a physicking’.
1834		‘A Grand Turn-Out’ in Randy Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 189: In the next round he was down on his luck, / While dirty Dick physic’d his napper so neatly.
1856		C. Reade It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 3: What are you all humbugging there for, and why does not that young rascal turn out to work? I’ll physic him.