sanative

Example Sentences

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We apprehend it will then be hard work to convince the intelligent and thinking part of the community that poisons and the lancet are sanative agents.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

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)

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)

Sleep, in short, if not a "matchless" sanative, is at least a universal one.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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