sanative

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Asses' milk, long celebrated for its sanative qualities, more closely resembles that of a woman than any other.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

Since I had seen him, society had emulated the State in the practice of a truly sanative attitude toward him.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

Notwithstanding their ruinous condition, they were crowded with sick, hoping to derive benefit from the waters, which are still famed for their sanative power. 

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

That Wisest of Men—so our dear friends may have heard—extols it above history and above philosophy, as the more divine in its origin, the more immediately and intimately salutary and sanative in its use.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

These being the requisite properties of what is taken as a breakfast, it remains to consider whether those of the sanative tea are adequate to such indispensible purposes.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Smith, Hugh