sanative
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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
In this case, as in diarrhœa, we recognize a simple and sanative operation of nature's law, which, if aided, will generally prove beneficial.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
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
"And you don't think two years' prison, two years' slavery, was sanative enough without the denial of his just compensation?"
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
Nevertheless, this arrow with its barbed hooks was torn out of my heart; and the question then was, how the inward sanative power of youth could be brought to one's aid.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
