Word: panacea
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...have given way to "the illustrated brochure, the medicine-show extravaganza to the television commercial." Among the quacks now under FDA attack, Ribicoff pointed out by way of a modern horrible example, are peddlers of bottled sea water, priced at up to $20 a gallon, as a "preventive and panacea for virtually all human ailments...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...
People are most anxious to talk about it at the Peace Corps office. Bill Moyers, a 28-year-old former Baptist minister, is Associate Director of Public Affairs. "We are under no illusions that this is a panacea. We aren't overly optimistic, and we don't think we're supermen," he said at the outset...
...Logotherapy is a supplement to existing psychotherapy and is not a panacea; it must co-exist with other psychotherapies," states Frankl. "It has its concrete indications and is not usable in each and every case...
...drug which has almost certainly cured cancer in man" is no panacea, and Dr. Terry, though too enthusiastic, was careful not to suggest that it is. It cures only some cases of choriocarcinoma, one of the rarest of cancers (about 300 U.S. cases a year). Unlike all other human cancers, choriocarcinoma is derived partly from foreign tissue-from the fetal sac, in the case of women who develop it following pregnancy. In animals (typically, mice in experiments), foreign cancers are easier to cure than the spontaneous disease ; presumably the same is true...