universal remedy
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The public must not expect cancer research to disclose the secret of the cause of cancer, nor to provide a universal remedy for advanced cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a universal remedy in those days, but it brought no relief to the sufferer.
From Washington's Birthday by Robert Haven Schauffler
Our precious universal remedy, prayer, was now again resorted to.
From A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Fourth Part by George Müller
Orvietan or Venice treacle, the well-known universal remedy of the middle ages, alluded to by Chaucer in the words, "And Christ that is unto all ills triacle."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
It is a sacred tree all over Africa and India, and the tender roots which drop down towards the ground are used as medicine—a universal remedy.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
