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Example sentences for "cure"

Lexicographically close words:
curdled; curdles; curdling; curds; curdy; cured; cureless; curer; curers; cures
  1. He had heard talk of the holy woman Fatima, and how she pretended to cure the headache.

  2. They are a very good natured animal when domesticated, but I believe it to be impossible to cure that savageness, which all I have seen seem to possess.

  3. In cases of chronic leg ulcers, especially those associated with enlarged veins, it is impossible to effect a cure until the chronic congestion of the limb is relieved and the blood supply of the part approaches the normal.

  4. It is in these cases that a permanent cure frequently results from the mere removal of the irritating nail edge followed by the disinfection of the nail groove.

  5. The permanent cure of callosities depends exclusively upon the removal of their causation.

  6. Spontaneous cure often occurs when a cyst becomes inflamed and suppurates.

  7. This form of ulcer is very often difficult to cure and shows a tendency to return after healing.

  8. With sufficient room in the shoe and the removal of offending granulations or cutting nail edge, a radical cure can frequently be effected.

  9. The palliative cure rests for its efficacy on the removal of the horny tissue down to, but not into, the papillary layer.

  10. The injection of a killed culture of a specific bacterium as a means of prophylaxis or cure of the disease caused by that microorganism.

  11. In minor or trivial affairs the elimination of pain is not to be considered lightly, for every patient, even the strongest, will appreciate anything which will expedite a cure and at the same time will relieve him of suffering.

  12. An accurate determination of which condition represents the original etiologic element is important in deciding upon a course of treatment directed to the radical cure of ingrown nail.

  13. The same circumstances occurred at Lindenau, the cure of which was committed to me vicariously in 1636, by the Royal Consistory.

  14. Earth has no cure for the woes which a residence here entails upon us.

  15. Punishment, in this world, has cure for its object.

  16. Is it not remarkable," said Josephine to her parent, "that polish and purify as you may, you cannot cure an Irishman of vulgarity?

  17. I wish I could propose a cure for the evil you lament, Miss Read, but I am afraid it is irremediable.

  18. I thought gold a cure for every ill; a reward for every toil.

  19. Meantime he sent his daughter to fetch the herbs which were to cure the poor mother, and gave them to her, telling her how to administer them.

  20. But I have had some experience with animals, as I told you and the Ruler, and I've helped cure many injured ones.

  21. I was just studying Inver's poor caval, and trying to figure out a way to help cure its leg.

  22. The preambles of the laws which were intended to cure the evils, bear the most direct and full evidence of their existence and extent.

  23. Thus were Kings and Lords accustomed to retain as their chaplains persons who were free from all cure of souls.

  24. You must cure him of that bad habit," said cousin Judy to me once.

  25. Progress is the real cure for an overestimate of ourselves.

  26. If you looked up to a fellow like me, I think it would almost cure me of looking up to you; and what I want is to look up to you every day and all day long: only I can do that whether you let me or not.

  27. Set by once more for a season to feel my unprofitableness and cure my pride.

  28. I do believe that a journey through Austria would go far to cure some of the Popery-admirers of our beloved land.

  29. The other one will go from the rest-cure in this city to the rest-cure in Norfolk Conn and we shall not see her before autumn.

  30. The first recorded mention of him is in The Plotters Ballad, being Jack Ketch's incomparable Receipt for the Cure of Traytorous Recusants and Wholesome Physick for a Popish Contagion, a broadside published in December 1672.

  31. KING'S EVIL, an old, but not yet obsolete, name given to the scrofula, which in the popular estimation was deemed capable of cure by the royal touch.

  32. I sent word to you that I had a new cure for rheumatism.

  33. Pigg called to his little girl: "Give my regards to Mr. Bushytail, and tell him that if he sees Uncle Wiggily Longears to mention that I have a new cure for rheumatism, that I will send him.

  34. The cure for discontent is to find out where the shoe pinches and ease it.

  35. He would trace out these sources of evil, cure them or cut them out, and leave India a record of his rule as Commander-in-Chief which would be of greater service to her than if he had led this army to the most brilliant victory.

  36. My father used to take the Journal many years ago, from which I tried my first experiments in psychology; and have practised magnetism for cure of diseases in an amateur way with as much success as any I have seen operate.

  37. Milner Stephen performs his miraculous cures in London with honor, and Dorothea Trudell had her house of cure by prayer in Switzerland, which has been made famous in religious literature.

  38. One of the latest is a sort of strait-waistcoat left behind by a cripple who had used it for many years, but went away, as the cure told me, on his own feet, and praising God and the blessed saints.

  39. The good cure in his book mentions the fact that they come in, but says nothing about their worship, which is said to include the adoration of fire, and other mysteries of an immemorially old religion.

  40. The cure came in as I was looking about me.

  41. Sir Neil’s men got the last of the meat; and a minute or two ago, who should come in—devil’s cure to him!

  42. The class of old women called colloughs were then held in the highest estimation, as understanding the cure (that is if God pleased) of all disorders.

  43. Sure,” said she, “God never sent any disorder into a country that he did not likewise send something to cure it with.

  44. I answered, ‘I will soon cure that, for I will now march up until I lay my pistol to your face.

  45. There's nuth'n' in this country that'll cure you.

  46. I knew I should cure you of your bad humour.

  47. Johannès no thaumaturge in France dare try to cure it.

  48. And yet democracy is the panacea which is going to cure every ill," said Des Hermies, laughing.

  49. He continues, I believe, to cure venefices, and he preaches the blessed coming of the Paraclete.

  50. It's a compromise medicine, a democratic medicine, one cure for all cases.

  51. The oculists see only the eyes, and, to cure them, quite calmly poison the body.

  52. So the doctor finally said to me, 'Your cure can be obtained only through an invincible power.

  53. No more than a man can conclude, that because there be pestilent airs, able suddenly to kill a man in health, therefore there should be sovereign airs, able suddenly to cure a man in sickness.

  54. So have they increased the fear of death in offering to cure it.

  55. And if it be said that the cure of men's minds belongeth to sacred divinity, it is most true; but yet moral philosophy may be preferred unto her as a wise servant and humble handmaid.

  56. In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand this excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual.

  57. So in the culture and cure of the mind of man, two things are without our command: points of Nature, and points of fortune.

  58. Do you know, I think that if I had her all to myself I could cure her faults, for I am quite alive to them.

  59. Love will cure love, but not in homoeopathic doses.

  60. And I shall grumble at you till I cure you of grumbling.

  61. A single--though it must be confessed rather terrific--application of cold water to the original offender worked a simultaneous cure upon her and all of her imitators.

  62. But we despair of any cure for this evil.

  63. Carlyle saw in education a cure for social evils, and held that one of the first functions of government was to impart the gift of thinking to its future citizens.

  64. And what was the bolus, proposed to be applied for the cure of this alarming cancer?

  65. So far as he could cure it the smoke nuisance had to be cured, or his conscience would know the reason why!

  66. The mere fact that a new dentist has "set up" in a district is enough to cure all the toothache for miles around.


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