sanative

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The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of the sanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider what benefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon.

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

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

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

Nevertheless, this arrow with its barbed hooks was torn out of my heart; and the question then was, how the inward sanative power of youth could be brought to one's aid.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

"But, our dear friend!" we entreated, "don't you realize that this theft, this robbery, this fraud, as you call it, was part of the sanative punishment which the State had inflicted upon him?"

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

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)