A panacea is any supposed remedy that is claimed to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely. Named after the Greek goddess of universal remedy Panacea, it was in the past sought by alchemists in connection with the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, a mythical substance that would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, many "patent medicines" were claimed to be panaceas, and they became very big business. The term "panacea" is used in a negative way to describe the overuse of any one solution to solve many different problems, especially in medicine. The word has acquired connotations of snake oil and quackery.
Weller is a surname. Its origin is from Old English for a well—a hole dug for water—or a spring.
Pearse is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Paterson is a Scottish and Irish surname meaning "Father's son" or "son of Patrick". In Connacht, and Ulster, the name is considered to be an Anglicised form of the Irish language surname Ó Casáin. Paterson is rarely used as a given name. There are other spellings, including Patterson. Notable people with the surname include:
Platt is an English surname, and may refer to:
Wiggin is a surname, and may refer to
Dorman is a surname, derived from the Middle English word dere, or deor, meant "wild animal". Therefore, Dorman translates as "wild animal", or, perhaps, "wild animal-man". Another, Old English, derivation is from the Old English word deor, meaning "deer", and, mann, meaning "man": thus, Deer Man. Dorman is also a Turkic name which was widely used by the Cumans and Pechenegs. Americanized form of German Dormann: occupational name for a doorkeeper or gatekeeper or topographic name for someone who lived by the gate of a town or city. Compare Dorer Dorwart. Hungarian (Dormán): from the old personal name Dormán. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Tall, beautiful, God's chosen, exiled ones. Notable people with the surname include:
Ahearn or Ahearne is a surname. It descends from Echthighern mac Cennétig. Notable people with the surname include:
Pickard is a surname, an Anglicised version of Picard, originally meaning a person from Picardy, a historical region and cultural area of France.
Bach is a surname of German-language origin. Notable people with the surname include:
Donohue is a surname of Irish origin abbreviated from O'Donohue. Notable people with the surname include:
Fielden is an English surname. Notable people with it include:
Weightman is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brassey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
De Groote is a Dutch surname meaning "the big one". It is most common in Flanders and sometimes is concatenated as DeGroote or Degroote. People with this name include:
Donnelly is an Irish surname. Also used as: O’Donnelly or Donley. It is derived from the Gaelic Ó Donnghaile meaning 'descendant of Donnghal', a given name composed of the elements donn and gal ('valour'). O'Donnelly was historically of the Northern Uí Néill's Cenél nEoghain, descended from Donnghal, the great-grandson of Domhnall, King of Ailech.
Ayer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brotherton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Swinburne or Swinburn is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include the following:
Kincaid or Kinkaid is a Scottish surname.
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