catholicon

The Professor then entreated M. T. Pate to imbibe from the bottle containing his catholicon.

Indeed I doubt whether I have ever felt the catholicon—the pervading virtue of his book—quite so strongly as I have in the days preceding that on which I write these words.

Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill—but the political drug-stores are full of 'em.

In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.