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Early-stage lung cancers are not only difficult to diagnose—they’ve also proven difficult to curatively treat.

From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2022

I see it every day in my Jane'—her maid, who is mesmerised for deafness, but not, I believe, with much success curatively.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

It is equally possible that the Lycopodium acted curatively; but I am inclined to believe their disintegration and expulsion was caused or aided by the use of the last medicine.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

It is more probable that mental influence acted curatively even over tissue changes as it so often does, directly under our observation, in the production of such changes in the skin.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The intelligent neurologist, nowadays, has practically no known specific for any form of nervous disease, no remedy which acts directly and curatively upon the nervous system itself.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods