panpharmacon

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For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute _panpharmacon_, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world.

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  • For he was wont to say, that although he could not declare the waters which he patronised to be an absolute _panpharmacon_, yet he would with word and pen maintain, that they possessed the principal virtues of the most celebrated medicinal springs in the known world. —  St. Ronan's Well
 

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  1. New Latin, properly *pampharmacon (cf. Greek παμφάρμακος, skilled in all drugs), from Greek πᾶς (παν-), all, + φάρμακον, drug: see pharmacon.
 

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