sanative

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Wherefore not eat snails? they are known to be nutritious and wholesome, and even sanative in some cases.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous

Near the same spot is St. Agnes' Well, of which many miraculous stories are in circulation, from its presumed holy and sanative properties.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell

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 Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

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

The war has produced no other book like 'Professor Latimer's Progress,' with its sanative masculine blend of deep feeling, fluid intelligence, and heart-easing mirth, its people a joyous company.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy