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Across literature, the term “remedy” is flexibly employed both in its literal sense—as a cure for physical ailments or legal deficiencies—and in a figurative or metaphorical way, addressing moral, emotional, or societal maladies. Some texts employ it in a medical context, describing treatments or cures for diseases or afflictions, as seen with references to specific herbal cures or techniques [1, 2, 3, 4]. In the legal and political sphere, “remedy” frequently signifies solutions to breaches or wrongs, whether in contracts or governmental challenges [5, 6, 7]. Moreover, the word extends into the realm of the abstract, representing corrections to personal misfortunes or emotional disturbances, such as love’s woes or the need to amend errors in conduct [8, 9, 10]. Collectively, these varied uses underscore the term’s rich versatility in addressing both tangible and intangible challenges across the literary spectrum [11, 12, 13].
  1. It helps the cholic, and is a sovereign remedy for any diseases in any part of the body coming either of wind or cold.
    — from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper
  2. It is an especial remedy against opium taken too liberally.
    — from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper
  3. It mightily strengthens the breast and lungs, causes long wind, clears the voice, is a good remedy against coughs.
    — from The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper
  4. The decoction of the root bark is a common remedy for liver troubles along the coast of Malabar according to Rheede.
    — from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. Pardo de Tavera
  5. If a contract, why is there no remedy for its violation either in law or equity, as is the case with other contracts?
    — from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  6. In all states and conditions, the true remedy of force without authority, is to oppose force to it.
    — from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
  7. But a right implies a remedy; and where else could the remedy be deposited, than where it is deposited by the Constitution?
    — from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
  8. It is true, the remedy of love is almost impossible.
    — from On Love by Stendhal
  9. But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault; Which death, or absence, soon shall remedy.
    — from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
  10. Why should I fall in love with such a face else? I have already suffer'd for thee so much pain, The only remedy to do me good Is to kill my longing.
    — from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
  11. What is my remedy against a robber, that so broke into my house?
    — from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
  12. It is no EXPLANATION of our concrete universe, it is another thing altogether, a substitute for it, a remedy, a way of escape.
    — from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
  13. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy?
    — from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

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