In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities. |
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Death is the cure of all diseases. There is no Catholicon or universal remedy I know but this. |
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A good wife is a Catholicon for all the evils that happen in life. |
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The 1483 copy of Catholicon Anglicumis, a Middle English-Latin dictionary is the only one of its kind in existence. |
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The dictionary Catholicon Anglicum, is thought to have been written in northern England and dates from 1483 and is one of its kind, the Daily Express reported. |
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The first Breton dictionary, the Catholicon, was also the first French dictionary. |
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