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

This appears to be the best thing that can be done at the present time; perhaps sagacious minds will yet discover a universal remedy for this mammoth evil.

From The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by Thayer, William M. (William Makepeace)

The man kept his gravity, and did reverence to the poor doll, while I burned with indignation at being imposed upon by a counterfeit "universal remedy for all diseases."

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

Cantharides blister is his universal remedy for everything.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

Said Greenwood offers his ſervice to electeriſe thoſe who ſtand in need of that almoſt universal remedy, at 1/6 each time, at his Houſe.

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)