Bring on the Wodehouse, I say, that sovereign remedy for any mumpish disharmony of mood.
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Medicines will serve as an example. > There are monkshood, balloonflower, cockscomb, and chinaroot; each has a > time when it is the sovereign remedy, though the individual cases are too > numerous to describe. (24, tr. Watson 1968:277) Another Zhuangzi chapter depicts zhenren as oblivious to punishment.
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Chatwin, who "passionately believed that walking constituted the sovereign remedy for every mental travail", learned it from Patrick Leigh Fermor and immediately wrote it down in his notebook.Cooper, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (2012), p.373, . The phrase is discussed multiple times and at some length in The Tao of Travel (2011) by Paul Theroux.
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"Circassian Eye-Water" was marketed as "a sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes",Delaware Gazette and State Journal, 2 February 1815 and in the 1840s "Circassian hair dye" was marketed to create a rich dark lustrous effect.Thomas M. Barrett (1998), "Southern Living (in Captivity): The Caucasus in Russian Popular Culture", The Journal of Popular Culture 31 (4), 75–93.
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At the end of the year, Phil Denton quit the band and was replaced by Leon Lawson for several live shows before the band came off the road. Their second album was released by the Sonic label as Lethal Potion in 1990. In 2004, the album was re-released as Sovereign Remedy on the TPL label, as it was originally intended, with all the tracks, the original mix and new artwork.
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During the crusades of the 14th century the Lockharts brought back a precious heirloom. It is known as the "Lee Penny". Sir Simon Lockhart captured a Moorish amir in battle and received from the man's mother as part of his ransom an amulet or stone with healing powers. The amir's mother told Sir Simon that the stone was a sovereign remedy against bleeding and fever, the bite of a mad dog, and sickness in horses and cattle.
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Mummia was originally used in mummy's first meaning "a medicinal preparation…" (1486), then in the second meaning "a sovereign remedy" (1741), and lastly to specify "in mineralogy, a sort of bitumen, or mineral pitch, which is soft and tough, like shoemaker's wax, when the weather is warm, but brittle, like pitch, in cold weather. It is found in Persia, where it is highly valued" (1841). In modern English usage, mummy commonly means "embalmed body" as distinguished from mummia "a medicine" in historical contexts. Mummia or mumia is defined by three English mineralogical terms.
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In 1986, the band recorded their first album The Son of Odin. In issue 137 (November 2005) of Terrorizer magazine, the album was included in the top 20 power metal albums of all time, alongside Judas Priest's Painkiller, Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II and Cirith Ungol's King of the Dead. Elixir recorded their second album, initially called Sovereign Remedy in 1988 with Mark White on the bass and former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr. Stevie Hughes replaced Burr for the band's live commitments through 1989.
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Mummy was first recorded meaning "a medicinal preparation of the substance of mummies; hence, an unctuous liquid or gum used medicinally" (c. 1400), which Shakespeare used jocularly for "dead flesh; body in which life is extinct" (1598), and later "a pulpy substance or mass" (1601). Second, it was semantically extended to mean "a sovereign remedy" (1598), "a medicinal bituminous drug obtained from Arabia and the East" (1601), "a kind of wax used in the transplanting and grafting of trees" (1721), and "a rich brown bituminous pigment" (1854). The third mummy meaning was "the body of a human being or animal embalmed (according to the ancient Egyptian or some analogous method) as a preparation for burial" (1615), and "a human or animal body desiccated by exposure to sun or air" (1727).
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The book Tobacco in Colonial Virginia ("The Sovereign Remedy") by Melvin Herndon describes operation of the public warehouses as follows: > In 1730 the most comprehensive inspection bill ever introduced, passed the > General Assembly. The common knowledge that the past and present inspection > laws had failed to prevent the importation of unmarketable tobacco, plus a > long depression, had changed the attitude of many of the influential > planters and merchants. Nevertheless, the act did meet with opposition from > some of the English customs officials and a few of the large planters. Soon > after the passage of this new inspection law a prominent planter wrote > complainingly to a London merchant, "This Tobo hath passed the Inspection of > our new law, every hogshead was cased and viewed by which means the tobacco > was very much tumbled and made something less sightly than it was before and > it causes a great deal of extraordinary trouble".
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He pictures > continually to himself the cruellest and most dreadful imaginings of an > inevitable death awaiting him, and, as it seems, all this fills him with > despair, because his senses are withering away; thus, should one such > drunkard go to step over a beam, he will take a great stride out of all > proportion to the actual size of it, while another will see deep water in > front of him [ where there is only shallow ] such that he dare not venture > into it. In conclusion, Gmelin then adds, concerning the plant itself : > The local inhabitants often use these roots when they want to play a prank > upon each other. The Russian merchants often bring these roots back with > them when they return to Russia, because they maintain them to be a > sovereign remedy for bleeding haemorrhoids and also against the haematuria – > a claim which I have been unable to verify.Johann Georg Gmelin, Reise durch > Sibirien von dem Jahre 1738 bis zum ende 1740, Bd. 3 & 4, Vandenhoeck, > Göttingen, 1752.
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