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
An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
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 Oxonian, An
His Christianity is something proud, and majestic, and divine,—a universal remedy for a universal disease,—not a skeleton of dead doctrine, or a bone of contention, or an obsolete word, but a living, healthy, beneficent power.
From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
