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Remedial

adjective

Tending or intended to rectify or improve. "Remedial education"

Tending to cure or restore to health. Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, sanative, therapeutic. "Her gentle healing hand" , "Remedial surgery" , "A sanative environment of mountains and fresh air" , "A therapeutic agent" , "Therapeutic diets"

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"Remedial" Quotes from Famous Books

... evils take their rise. When speaking of the overcrowding and the official ill-treatment of the poor, he says truly: "These are the sort of evils which, where there are no resident gentry, grow to a height almost incredible, and on which the remedial influence of the mere presence of a gentleman known to be on the alert is inestimable." But nothing, as I often had occasion to remark, could be more judicious than his interference on behalf of the poor, or more unlike the ...

— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green

... said Coningsby, 'that the remedial action of our manners has removed all the political and social ...

— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... if Eve's repentance was thorough; for the plucking of unripe fruit has been, ever since, a favorite hobby of her sons and daughters,—until now our mankind has got itself into such a chronic state of colic, that even Dr. Carlyle declares himself unable to prescribe any Morrison's Pill or other remedial ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 26, December, 1859 • Various

... been highly valued as a remedial agent by the leading physicians of that day. Christoph Ludwig Hoffman wrote a treatise entitled, "Potus Chocolate," in which he recommended it in many diseases, and instanced the case of Cardinal Richelieu, who, he stated, was cured of general ...

— Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes • Miss Parloa

... susceptible of morbific intrusions. Under an unusual exposure to exciting causes, the balance of health has been overcome. If my presumption is correct, we have the steady effort of nature, in co-operation with remedial agencies, working towards ...

— The Allen House - or Twenty Years Ago and Now • T. S. Arthur

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