Exorcism, shackles, and the whip were the penalties rather than the curatives for mental maladies.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Yes, I am Positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields."
"Essays On Work And Culture"
Hamilton Wright Mabie
If so, why not recognize the great principles of self-government and state equality as curatives?
"Children of the Market Place"
Edgar Lee Masters