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The fix everyone wants now and nobody patents fast enough to share.
means To restore someone to health by eliminating a disease or ailment — or the remedy that does so; also, to preserve food by salting, smoking, or drying.
from From Latin 'cura,' meaning 'care, concern, attention,' which flowed into Old French 'curer' and then English. The medical sense grew naturally from the idea of caring for the sick. The same root explains why a parish priest is called a 'curate' (one with the 'cure of souls') and why we 'curate' a collection — all forms of careful tending. The food-preserving sense likely branches from the same notion of attentive treatment.
- word origin
- From Latin cura, meaning care or concern
- meat too
- Curing food predates curing diseases by millennia
- placebo power
- Belief alone heals measurable percentages of patients
- smallpox
- Only human disease ever fully eradicated worldwide
- profit puzzle
- One-time cures earn drugmakers less than chronic treatments
jonas salk polio vaccine — eliminated polio in western hemisphere by 1994, 99% reduction globally