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
To live in the present, within the limits of a single culture, is insufficient as a universal remedy: too many highly useful kinds of men, who cannot breathe freely in this atmosphere, would perish.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The universal remedy was likewise a grand secret of the order, the discovery of which was promised to all its faithful members.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
If this translation be correct, the chorus would seem to have been sung when the Druids went in search of the sacred mistletoe, which they called the "heal all," or universal remedy.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Alexander Macbain
Hot water used to be the universal remedy for all diseases at college.
From Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill
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