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Example sentences for "curative"

Lexicographically close words:
curassow; curassows; curat; curate; curates; curato; curator; curatores; curators; curb
  1. Occupations for invalids are more than a means to pass away the time; they are also of distinct curative value.

  2. An example of their action is the curative effect of quinine in malaria.

  3. The price is One Dollar per bottle, which, in view of its marvellous curative power, is a veritable gift, and with each bottle we furnish an inhaler specially manufactured for the purpose.

  4. No curative measures have so far proved of any avail in the treatment of general paralysis.

  5. There is no curative treatment for excited melancholia.

  6. He has cut a road through a pass in the mountains to Agassiz station, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, five miles distant, so that the springs may now be easily reached by invalids wishing to test their curative properties.

  7. The curative power of these waters has been known to the natives for ages past, and the sick have come from all directions, and from villages many miles away, to bathe in the waters and be healed.

  8. Haygarth, without gainsaying them, quietly, but in the face of numerous witnesses, exposed the delusion under which people laboured with respect to the curative medium.

  9. The most wonderful stories soon obtained general circulation, and the press groaned with pamphlets, all vaunting the curative effects of the tractors, which were sold at five guineas the pair.

  10. In the uncertainty of our present knowledge considerable hesitation must be felt in advising vaccine treatment as a curative measure.

  11. We may thus speak of the overwhelmingly curative tendency of nature.

  12. As to curative measures, the course to be followed is clearly self-evident and defined.

  13. Acids are decidedly negative in their electrical action, and therefore, have a curative effect upon inflammatory diseases.

  14. In this instance, in order to initiate the curative process it is necessary to accelerate the vibration of the electrons in the body--to render the system positive.

  15. A diet without meat has a better curative effect upon the disease.

  16. Here, therefore, red light is used for curative purposes because it vibrates quietly.

  17. In all cases where eye trouble concerns the lens, as well as when there is a general disposition to caries in the teeth, the following treatment will produce a curative and preventive effect.

  18. The employment of coloured light for curative purposes has been already explained in the preceding pages.

  19. Inasmuch as a natural immunity does not appear after an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis, it might be anticipated that serum of recovered cases would possess neither curative nor prophylactic qualities.

  20. The curative treatment should be similar to the prophylactic, and such means should be used as would tend to prevent the deposit of bony matters by checking the acute inflammation which causes it.

  21. This serum possesses considerable curative value and may prove especially valuable in cases in which the animals have failed to respond to other forms of treatment, or when valuable animals are affected with the disease.

  22. In a number of instances afforded to test the curative value of the serum in cases of anthrax in man and animals splendid results were obtained.

  23. As to the curative measures which are to be adopted much will depend upon the extent of the injury.

  24. As to curative measures, a diversity of opinion exists.

  25. Usually, however, the disease does not tend to recovery, and active curative measures must be adopted.

  26. There is no such remedy in the apothecary's shop, and there is no physician who would expose his own children to the contagion of scarlatina from the confidence he has in the curative or protective powers of any drug.

  27. I mention it only to show the curative and protective power of the latter, and have not the slightest objection to others using a little more caution than I find necessary myself.

  28. It is now known that the balsamic preparations, formerly so widely used, do not have the curative effects in gonorrhea and associated conditions that used to be ascribed to them.

  29. The claims as to the preventive and curative effects of the preparation cover a large portion of the category of human ailments and distresses.

  30. Lowenthal, who introduced the Lymph Compound and Lymphoid Compound to the Scientific Medical World as a curative agent in Chronic Nervous conditions.

  31. Touche concludes his article with the statement that “it is certain that the effect is not curative but it is actually palliative.

  32. The prompt and curative effect produced by homeopathic remedies soon convinced him of its superiority over other systems of medicine and decided him to adopt it as his system of practice for life.

  33. He has always taken a lively interest in the advancement of medical science, firmly believing in the immutable principles that govern the administration of homeopathic medicine as well as the curative effect.

  34. Manifestly in Luke's mind the most interesting phase of the Lord's life was His exhibition of curative powers, and the Saviour was for him the divine healer, the God physician of bodies as well as of souls.

  35. That gave them a reputation for curative powers of itself because of the fame of some Jewish doctors and their employment by the nobility and the highest ecclesiastics.

  36. We think that the treatment by inoculation might have prevented the typhus in a very large proportion, and that the curative medication might have saved many of the infected cattle at the worst period of the epizootia.

  37. We shall, therefore, now proceed to consider the subject of the treatment of horned cattle, both as relates to preventive and curative medication.

  38. Nevertheless, among these people, a plant not found by any medical scientist to possess any curative powers is used almost universally, to cure every kind of ailment and has been so used for generations.

  39. Western authorities have heretofore placed little value on Ginseng as a curative agent, but a number of recent investigations seem to reverse this opinion.

  40. It may well be called the "cure-all" as the Chinese have a wonderful faith in its curative and strengthening properties, and it has been appropriately called the "cinchona of China.

  41. Nothing will be curative in asthma unless the patient has confidence in his power and uses his own will energy to help it.

  42. Cases of this kind have constituted a goodly part of the clientele of the great historic impostors who succeeded in making large sums of money out of curing people by methods that in themselves had no curative power.

  43. Perkins' declarations of the curative value of his tractors were, after all, only a succeeding phase of what Mesmer had called to the attention of the medical profession and the public in Paris not quite a generation before.

  44. Hypnotism is often almost instantly successful, but, apart from hypnosis, curative suggestions proceeding from the attendants form the principal means at our disposal.

  45. Thus Lourdes water, bottled and exported, is still held to possess curative virtue on account of the Virgin's original blessing bestowed upon the Lourdes spring.

  46. Physicians introduced it to their patients, and were lavish in their praises of its curative powers.

  47. A simple dietary, consisting of fruits, grains, and nuts, and particularly the free use of fruits, must be placed in the first rank among the radical curative measures.

  48. Where we can establish the etiology of a given case, we cannot of course be in doubt as to the remedy; and in many instances of this kind we find in electricity our most potent curative agent.

  49. When shall we learn that the great curative principle is love, that love heals because it is harmony?

  50. Faith in one's physician is a powerful curative suggestion.

  51. These auxiliary asylums, which should be under the management of the present visiting justices, would be intermediate between union workhouses and the principal curative asylums.

  52. He was in a low, desponding state, and if he had been sent to a curative asylum, he might have been cured and restored to society.

  53. Look to the fact, that in some of the existing large curative (?

  54. They are, moreover, all spoken of by the Lunacy Commissioners as Curative Asylums.

  55. More than this, in numerous instances it exerts an ameliorating influence upon pre-existing diseases, suspending their march, or bringing about a decidedly curative effect.

  56. Some writers have pointed out that in many diseases marriage exerts a decidedly curative influence, especially in chronic nervous ailments.

  57. In fact, the soothing effect is too often mistaken for a curative effect and the patient is neglected.

  58. The value of opium does not lie so much in its direct curative powers as in its sedative and quieting effects upon diseased organs, which tends to hasten or bring about the healing or recuperating process.

  59. She studied the Scriptures and the sciences, she declares, in a search for the great curative principle.

  60. After careful study she became convinced that the curative principle was the Deity.

  61. All repetitions should cease as soon as a general improvement sets in; if the medicine is continued beyond the point where the organism is saturated with the drug, it acts as a hostile agent, not as a curative remedy.

  62. Keeping quiet and dry, and in a uniform temperature, is all that is required, in order to secure the full curative action of Apis.

  63. I have treated a pretty fair share of obstinate and complicated cases of this disease, and have, therefore, had an opportunity of testing the curative virtues of Apis in a satisfactory manner.

  64. Thanks to the curative powers of Apis, scarlatina has ceased to be a scourge to childhood.

  65. Its curative action soon became manifest in two different ways.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.