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
The ginseng, which they pretended was a universal remedy, is found to be a root of no singular virtue.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
The belief in an universal remedy has long been abandoned, even among the vulgar, and long exploded in those classes of society, which are not influenced by prejudice, or tinctured with fanaticism.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
He is the universal remedy of all evil broken forth in nature and creature.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
Becoming, however, infected with the delusions of alchemy, and being possessed of an ardent imagination, he inclined naturally to the study of occult science, and was infatuated with the idea of discovering a universal remedy.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means
