They cannot argue as convincingly that more money might produce a medical cure anytime soon.
Early tobacco usage was for medical cures and religious purposes.
Religious leaders are male specialists in medical cures who practice divination and witchcraft.
Like most Asian turtles, it is collected yearly as a food source or for "medical cures."
Ceremonial sweat baths was considered a medical cure to diseases.
"Well, it's starting to look as if there's no real scientific or medical cure for what's happening."
China was then still a poor, isolated country, more concerned with ideology than with medical cures.
An illness may have both a medical cure and a magical one.
Traditional treatment for alcoholism has been the police drunk tank or medical "cures" of dubious value.
Curll also sold medical cures themselves, and he was unscrupulous in promoting them.