sanative

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Then human duties, lowly though they may be, have their sanative and salutary influence on our whole frame of being.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Hence the reader will perceive that our aim is to depart from the popular debilitating and life-destroying practice, and approach as near as possible to the sanative.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

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

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

To one who has hived with demons, there is something so simple and sanative about the restoring night—the rest of healing and health.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar

He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.

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