universal remedy
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The public must not expect cancer research to disclose the secret of the cause of cancer, nor to provide a universal remedy for advanced cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
His Christianity is something proud, and majestic, and divine,—a universal remedy for a universal disease,—not a skeleton of dead doctrine, or a bone of contention, or an obsolete word, but a living, healthy, beneficent power.
From The London Pulpit by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Well, the abolition of caste, with an incredible number of people, is, in like manner, confidently pronounced to be a universal remedy for all the political and social complaints of India.
From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Elliot, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Becoming, however, infected with the delusions of alchemy, and being possessed of an ardent imagination, he inclined naturally to the study of occult science, and was infatuated with the idea of discovering a universal remedy.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means
The ginseng, which they pretended was a universal remedy, is found to be a root of no singular virtue.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
