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
The causes of this are various, and there is no one sovereign or universal remedy.
From Religious Reality by A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
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 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In addition, Dr. Punch begs to offer a piece of advice gratis to all persons in possession of his universal remedy, price 3d., 4d. stamped, to counterfeit which is piracy.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 by Various
Hot water used to be the universal remedy for all diseases at college.
From Lo, Michael! by Grace Livingston Hill
