sanative
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Then human duties, lowly though they may be, have their sanative and salutary influence on our whole frame of being.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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
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 F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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
The use of the sanative tea between dinner and supper operates as the most reviving and wholesome aliment that can, at such a time, be possibly taken.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
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