1) Cureall
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1) Medical treatment 2) Once sought by the alchemists 3) Traditional medicine
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[book] The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon (from the Greek Καθολικόν, universal), is a 13th-century Latin dictionary which found wide use throughout Christendom. Some of the entries contain encyclopedic information, and a Latin grammar is also included. The work was created by John Balbi (Johannes Januens...
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[electuary] In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities (see panacea); or a purger of all humours. Different authors have given different recipes for catholicon. That called Catholicon Nicholai was the most common in use; it consisted of sixteen ...
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[trilingual dictionary] Catholicon (from the Greek Καθολικόν, universal) is a Breton-French-Latin dictionary. It is the first Breton dictionary and also the first French dictionary. It contains six thousand entries and was compiled in 1464 by the Breton priest Jehan Lagadeuc and printed in 1499 in Tréguier. A manuscript of the dic...
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cure-all; panacea
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• (n.) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
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(from the article `Celtic literature`) ...period (11th to 17th century) the 11th- to 15th-century compositions were mainly oral, and little except a few scraps of verse is extant until the ... Some five years later, also in Mainz and quite possibly from the re-established printshop of a refinanced Gutenberg, there appeared the Catholico...
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Ca·thol'i·con noun [ Greek ..., neut. ..., universal. See
Catholic .]
(Medicine) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
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