sanative
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Since I had seen him, society had emulated the State in the practice of a truly sanative attitude toward him.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
The above being stated as the advantages attending the use of the sanative tea in the morning, it is next expedient to consider what benefit is derived from the use of it in the afternoon.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
And there is, too, a sanative quality in that feeling.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Let him eschew such hyper-erudite monstrosities—let him stick to the 'recital' of sane and sanative music, and he will attain a reputation above all contemporary musical mono-facturers—and what is more, deserve it.'
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
