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A substance that acts as a cure.

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Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

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The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.

The temple and the curative establishment of the god were situated outside the city.

The antitoxic serum when injected enttinoxic previously to the toxin also confers immunity (passive) against it; when injected after the toxin it has within certain limits a curative action, though in this case its dose requires to be large.

This is still used for curative purposes, as it was in the days of Herod, but it is neglected and dirty.

Muswell Hill took name from a holy well, of high repute for curative powers, over which an oratory was erected early in the 12th century, attached to the priory of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell.

Examination Fee The fee includes the full cost of the CHEC Certificate Examination in curative hypnotherapy.

In the vicinity of many of these mountain lakes thermal springs, with remarkable curative properties, are to be found.

Only 24% understood that treatment for ovarian cancer usually was not curative.

The routine elective removal of the gallbladder is a curative treatment, and for most patients with symptomatic gallstones remains the treatment of choice.

A curative hepatic resection may be possible in selected patients.

Continued rain " splash " events highlight the need to include a strong curative triazole in T2 treatments.

It was and still is held by many that the criminal may be best and most effectually weaned from his evil ways by shutting him up for lengthy periods between four walls, and subjecting him, when most susceptible, to curative processes, to constant exhortation and searching introspection, changing his nature and restoring him to society a reformed man.

Rather, if you want to keep your baby's diaper area clean and red-free, you'll need to employ a steady regimen of preventative and curative measures.

Milk thistle benefits include a variety of curative properties centered on its unique ability to protect the liver and gallbladder.

Since most fruits and vegetable juices are made with raw foods, all of the nutritional benefits and possible curative properties of the produce are transferred to the juices.

It is based on the idea that substances that produce symptoms of sickness in healthy people will have a curative effect when given in very dilute quantities to sick people who exhibit those same symptoms.

They appear in a document dating from 1341, where they are called "the Auschowitzer springs belonging to the abbey of Tepl;" but it was only through the efforts of Dr Josef Nehr, the doctor of the abbey, who from 1779 until his death in 1820 worked hard to demonstrate the curative properties of the springs, that the waters began to be used for medicinal purposes.

The most interesting of Pasteur's investigations in preventive and curative medicine remains to be told.

Many of the springs have curative properties, one of them, the Green Cove Spring in Clay county, discharging about 3000 gallons of sulphuretted water per minute.

Even to-day the ignorant peasantry of many European countries, Russia, Galicia and elsewhere, believe that all disease is the work of demons, and that medicinal herbs owe their curative properties to their being the materialized forms of benevolent spirits.

Sacred wells are familiar features of Semitic sanctuaries, and Islam, retaining the well, made a quasi-biblical story for it, and endowed its tepid waters with miraculous curative virtues.

The well of St Triduana, which was reputed to possess wonderful curative powers, vanished when the North British railway was constructed.

So beneficial is the action that for years there prevailed the unfortunately erroneous belief that Chian turpentine is actually curative in this condition.

The study of pharmacological actions was at first almost entirely confined to those of remedial agents, and especially to the remedies in the different national pharmacopoeias, but in many cases it has now been extended to substances which are not used for curative purposes.

Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for gastric cancer.

Avoidance of medications or other products that are known to cause diarrhea (such as lactose) is curative in some people but should be discussed with a physician.

Overall, a sustainable job is socially responsible and environmentally curative.

Tylor, asserts itself everywhere in Christianity; and objects thus invested with spiritual or curative powers are called by the Latin doctors sacramentals.

This preparation is prophylactic, but does not seem to be curative.

Yersin has prepared a serum from horses in the same way as diphtheria anti-toxin, and this is said to have a curative action during the attack.

An uncontrolled study using cupping to relieve coughs reported a curative response in 35 of 41 patients.

Other development programs need to integrate into health issues (preventive and basic curative) with appropriate back-up support from the medical program.

Any potentially curative treatment for stomach cancer requires gastric resection.

To its curative powers many crutches and ex voto objects, hung round the well, as in the Lourdes Grot, bear ample witness.

Complete state control of the insane and the introduction of modern hospital and curative treatment in the state asylums (or hospitals) are gradually taking the place of county care for the insane and of antiquated custodial treatment in and political control of the state asylums - changes largely due to the action of Governor Deneen, who appointed in 1906 a Board of Charities pledged to reform.

Protection does seem to be afforded, but the curative action of the serum is still somewhat doubtful.

From this has arisen another popular error, which attributes extraordinary curative properties to its flesh when dried and pulverized.

In 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon (c. 1 4 60-1521), who had been with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage and had later been governor of Porto Rico, obtained a royal grant authorizing him to discover and settle " Bimini," - a fabulous island believed to contain a marvellous fountain or spring whose waters would restore to old men their youth or at least had wonderful curative powers.