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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

What is the difference between

palliative and salutary?

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

Salutary refers to anything that promotes health and well being.

Palliative refers specifically to things which releave the symptoms of an illness but have no influence on the underlying cause. Examples of palliative care include Chloroseptic, which eases the pain of a sore throat but has no effect on the underlying infection or morphine which reduces the pain felt by a terminal cancer patient but has no effect on the underlying cancer.

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

Oh, I see. It's a degree of specifity issue; both generically deal with health issues, but one stops at that; the other, goes on to deal with one issue.

Thanks [Smile]

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

I'd say that Vitamin C is salutary and not palliative, but Chloraseptic is palliative and not salutary.

However, both are copacetic.

Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :

I learn something new every day.