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 a sacred tree all over Africa and India, and the tender roots which drop down towards the ground are used as medicine—a universal remedy.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
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
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
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)
