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Panacea

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panacea
Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. In addition, nothing solves a problem without introducing its own new set of problems. See Systemantics.
Panacea
daughter of Greek god of healing. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 37]
See : Medicine
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His panacea was somewhat in the nature of an anti-climax, but at least it had the merits of simplicity and of common sense.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
Poor Hannah was the first to recover, and with unconscious wisdom she set all the rest a good example, for with her, work was panacea for most afflictions.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
 
 
 
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