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
Her universal remedy was a large house-spider alive, and enveloped in treacle or preserve.
From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various
Bay salt and cummin seeds mixed together, is a universal remedy for the diseases of pigeons.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
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)
To live in the present, within the limits of a single culture, is insufficient as a universal remedy: too many highly useful kinds of men, who cannot breathe freely in this atmosphere, would perish.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
