sanative

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When Braid discovered that hypnosis could be induced without passes, the mesmerists felt that their theory of a sanative effluence was dangerously attacked.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

And there is, too, a sanative quality in that feeling.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great potency and power.

From The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Trine, Ralph Waldo

These being the requisite properties of what is taken as a breakfast, it remains to consider whether those of the sanative tea are adequate to such indispensible purposes.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh

Smeared with that sanative soil, he might have been born again—no more a leper.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various