“My friends told me that acupuncture could cure everything, including my splitting headache.”

“Many believed that a return to traditional values would cure the social problems that plagued their community.”

“Pirates and sailors used to cure their meats with Allspice, which they would call boucan.”

“The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses.”

“During the Napoleonic wars the British army was supplied principally with corned beef which was cured in and exported from the port of Cork.”

“Devotees hold that any incurable disease will be cured and any desire will be fulfilled by pilgrimaging to this temple.”