Word: cures
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...that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders. He and other physicians of the time recommended it for both the cure and the prevention of migraine, neuralgia, and other symptoms of chronic anxiety-tension...
...Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities of the country: royal patients who demand an entourage of 100 attendants in the hospital. Bedouins who try to cure themselves by branding, and their wives, who are willing to strip for a physical examination only if they may keep their long black veils over their faces...
...resounding phrases sounded gloriously libertarian four years ago. But by last week French President Fracçois Mitterrand must surely have regretted the words he spoke as an opposition leader in 1979. In an effort to help cure an increasingly ailing economy, his government had laid a heavy official hand on one of the most hallowed of French traditions, the vacation...
Calligraphy may be the cure for sloppy handwriting...
...fact, Sagan's whole outlook on life and love seems to have changed. Love in her previous novels appeared as perfect yet infinitely elusive, a cure-all which could not be temporary. Now, now-ever, love does triumph, at least for two of the characters, and lasting happiness appears attainable. This is refreshing, yet somehow forced. Sagan has been criticized in the past for taking on too pessimistic a view of life and love, and now seems too eager to refute the charge...