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

It is the universal remedy, for it goes direct to the universal epidemic.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

Harmony was esteemed the panacea, or universal remedy, in mental and even bodily affections; in the tones of the lute were found medical recipes in almost all diseases.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

As there are here no doctors or medicines, conveniences or cleanliness for the cure of Spaniards, it is a usual practice and universal remedy for all to go to the hospital whenever ill.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Beginnin’, ‘At last the universal remedy of Biblical times.’

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman