What's the difference between curative and quacksalver?

Curative


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (2) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (3) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (4) However, the number of those with blastformation rates over 40% decreased markedly in the curative cases of gastric cancer Stage II to stage IV.
  • (5) From 1975 to 1987, 170 unresectable esophageal carcinomas were curatively irradiated.
  • (6) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (7) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (8) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (9) Further studies are needed to assess the curative efficacy with different dosage regimens.
  • (10) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
  • (11) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (12) Salbutamol showed the same protective and curative effect in 30 patients proved in the same way as described before.
  • (13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
  • (14) The development of dental policy may be benefited by modifying the curative-treatment model of care to one that is preventive-behavioralist oriented.
  • (15) Detection of free malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity following curative resections of colorectal cancer may explain why some patients develop local or peritoneal recurrence after favourable operations.
  • (16) Echography is the method of choice for the study of hydatidosis, since it permits the diagnosis of cysts, the long-term monitoring of patients, and via the use of an echo-guided needle, the performance of cytological, chemical and cultural studies, as well as curative treatment by means of percutaneous drainage and sterilisation with alcohol.
  • (17) Fifty-seven patients with poor prognostic factors following resection with curative intent for gastric adenocarcinoma (T3 or T4, positive lymph nodes, positive resection line) received adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (18) In the absence of any curative treatment, surgery was required to relieve obstruction and an operation was performed via an antero-lateral extra-pharyngeal approach.
  • (19) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
  • (20) Unfortunately, despite being a much better tolerated curative procedure involving a very brief hospitalization, the use of high-energy direct current (DC) shocks is associated with a low but significant incidence of serious complications including cardiac perforation, hypotension, coronary artery spasm, and late occurrence of ventricular fibrillation.

Quacksalver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many quacksalvers earned their living by treating such patients with a scalp incision, pretending to remove a stone.

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