Literary notes about sanative (AI summary)
The term “sanative” appears in literature primarily as a descriptor for properties or effects that restore, heal, or renew both body and spirit. It is frequently used in medical contexts to characterize substances or treatments—such as teas, washes, and waters—that bring about health benefits, as seen when a disease is described as defying all “sanative measures” ([1]) or when a tea is praised for its restorative properties ([2], [3]). Beyond the strictly medicinal, the word also carries a more metaphorical resonance; a walk in nature or the very air itself may be celebrated for its “sanative” influence on one’s wellbeing ([4], [5]), and even abstract qualities like moral fortitude or creative energy are depicted as having a healing effect ([6], [7]). In this way, “sanative” bridges the physical and the existential, underscoring a timeless association between natural or therapeutic forces and the renewal of life.
- Often, however, the disease defies all sanative measures, and advances unsubdued to a fatal termination.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston - CASE X. To the Proprietor of Dr. Solander's Sanative Tea .
— from A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith - To the Proprietor of the Sanative English Tea .
— from A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith - "There is nothing so sanative, so poetic, as a walk in the woods and fields even now, when I meet none abroad for pleasure.
— from A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee - The air was so sanative and dry that wheat could remain ten years in cover without rotting.
— from Toledo, the Story of an Old Spanish Capital by Hannah Lynch - The mind thus becomes "a silent, transforming, sanative energy" of great potency and power.
— from The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit by Ralph Waldo Trine - [Pg 290] It makes you ashamed; and shame is sanative."
— from The Daughter of the StorageAnd Other Things in Prose and Verse by William Dean Howells
