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panacea [ˌpænəˈsɪə] n a remedy for all diseases or ills [via Latin from Greek panakeia healing everything, from pan all + akēs remedy] panacean adj panacea a cure-all or universal remedy; an elixir. — panacean, adj. See also: Remedies
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His panacea was somewhat in the nature of an anti-climax, but at least it had the merits of simplicity and of common sense. Poor Hannah was the first to recover, and with unconscious wisdom she set all the rest a good example, for with her, work was panacea for most afflictions. For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. |
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