Sentence:  He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some <WSD>remedy</WSD> surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.