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
Beginnin’, ‘At last the universal remedy of Biblical times.’
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
The universal remedy was likewise a grand secret of the order, the discovery of which was promised to all its faithful members.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
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
Orvietan or Venice treacle, the well-known universal remedy of the middle ages, alluded to by Chaucer in the words, "And Christ that is unto all ills triacle."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John
