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cure-all
has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)He milks the latest scientific advances , translating them into his own special Buck_Rogers vocabulary to huckster his fake machines as a cure-all for everything from hay_fever to sexual impotence and cancer . In such diseases as cancer , tuberculosis , and heart_disease , early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste_of_time by the patient with Doctor_Fraud 's cure-all gadget can prove fatal . In Chicago , some time ago , Mr._H. , age 27 , a diabetic since he was six , stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' - a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent - sold by the Vrilium_Company of Chicago for $ 306 as a cure-all . |
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