pan·a·ce·a
n.
A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
[Latin panacea, from Greek panakeia, from panak s, all-healing : pan-, pan- + akos, cure.]
pan a·ce an adj.
This is something the world has needed since Pandora opened her box and gifted humanity with its contents. For more on Pandora and her box, see the upcoming (or is it here already) Tomb Raider movie.
For a treatise on Swaim’s Panacea, a nineteenth century proprietary medicine made with Sarsaparilla, Oil of Wintergreen and mercury, click here.
It might appear to some that George W. Bush views tax cuts as a panacea for all economic ills.
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