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

Dr. Greenwood, of Boston, in 1788 offered his services to "give a youthful air to the countenance," and was ready to "electerise" any persons who stood "in need of that almost universal remedy."

From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

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

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 Payne, John

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)