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remedy

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Remedy is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx , released in May 1999 by record label XL . The album was very well-received critically, and reached number 4 in the UK albums chart. Four singles were released from the album: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that corrects or counteracts. 2 (context legal English) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 3 A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. vb. (context transitive English) ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie , Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède ) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores ...

Usage examples of remedy.

Hotel, and has been attended by the most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease, and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly successful.

In the left-hand column is a list of diseases beginning with acidosis and running through neurosis and on to ulcers, and in the right-hand column are lists of wines that will remedy the diseases on the left.

Assisted by a number of other persons in good health, he experimented on the effects of cinchona, aconite, sulphur, arnica, and the other most highly extolled remedies.

Incidentally, as a quaint but effective remedy for carious toothache, may be mentioned the common lady bird insect, Coccinella, which when captured secretes from its legs a yellow acrid fluid having a disagreeable odour.

The only difference between the schools is in the remedies employed, the size of dose administered, and the results attained.

Catarrh Remedy administered preferably by means of the post-nasal syringe as illustrated in Fig.

The Catarrh Remedy may be administered by means of the Nasal Douche, if the case is complicated by nasal catarrh.

The causes, if they can be determined, should be removed, and those remedies administered which relieve nervous irritability and cerebral congestion.

The relief of the stricture by our new and painless method was followed by very great improvement in his condition, after which appropriate remedies for the rheumatism were administered, and the result was a very gratifying and satisfactory relief from his difficulty.

To prevent such a consummation, in conclusion, he urged the necessity of redressing the grievances, and of adopting some remedy to the deplorable distresses under which the Irish people were groaning.

It is very necessary to discriminate between these diseases, as the appropriate remedies of the latter will often only aggravate and augment the former.

In fact, an aggravation of the symptoms is evidence that the right remedy has been selected and is at work.

In my humble opinion the ordinary method of agitating by way of petitions, deputations and the like is no remedy for moving to repentence a Government so hopelessly indifferent to the welfare of its charges as the Government of India has proved to me.

FDA falling down on the job when it came to safeguarding the purity of whatever remedy the ailment of the moment demanded.

Other tissue-salts may be needed to deal with individual symptoms but the above are the most frequently needed remedies for ailments of a truly nervous character.