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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

... all the way through my career I have keenly felt the remedial measures usually enunciated in Christian programmes and ordinarily employed by Christian philanthropy to be lamentably inadequate for any effectual dealing with the despairing miseries of these outcast classes. The rescued are appallingly few—a ghastly ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... flushing of one's sewer—and then, if advisable, gradually lessening the quantity at subsequent injections to one or two pints at a time. The temperature should be 100 deg. to 105 deg. or more. Some people have an idea that water at the temperature named has a remedial effect on an inflamed anus and rectum. It has none whatever; all it does is to wash away the deposits which might irritate the inflamed surface. Water at a temperature of 100 deg. to 105 deg. is not an especially good antiseptic; and its ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... as much as you may glean from opportunities, of that which, when disclosed to us, will lie within our remedial power.' If the line of the Quarto be included, it makes plainer construction. The line beginning with 'So much,' then becomes parenthetical, and to gather will not immediately govern that line, but the rest of ...

— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald

... himself to what was denominated the air bath, as a remedial agent. Others believed in the direct action of the sun, placing themselves beneath glass cupolas to receive it; while still later we have the water-cure, which is thought by many to heal all diseases. These are right in combination, but no one will ...

— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

... had never tried to sober a drunken man, but he had an indistinct recollection of hearing that a towel wet with cold water, wrapped around the head was the best remedial agent. As he soaked the towels, he could not but compare the difference between this chill restorative and the hot cakes in the tale of the emir, and on a sudden there came to him a thought that sent all the gloom from his face. He dropped the towels, he dropped the ...

— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis

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