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

As there are here no doctors or medicines, conveniences or cleanliness for the cure of Spaniards, it is a usual practice and universal remedy for all to go to the hospital whenever ill.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

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 Waller, Horace

Her universal remedy was a large house-spider alive, and enveloped in treacle or preserve.

From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various

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 Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm