sanative
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We apprehend it will then be hard work to convince the intelligent and thinking part of the community that poisons and the lancet are sanative agents.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
An enquiry having been made into the nature, preparation, and manner of using the sanative tea, there only remains to conclude this Second Part of the Essay with the consideration of its EFFECTS.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh
When Braid discovered that hypnosis could be induced without passes, the mesmerists felt that their theory of a sanative effluence was dangerously attacked.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
Hence the reader will perceive that our aim is to depart from the popular debilitating and life-destroying practice, and approach as near as possible to the sanative.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George