panacea was a sovereign cure for all chronic complaints

[sobhan]

Professor Pennywhistle claimed his panacea was a sovereign cure for all chronic complaints. In medicine the sovereign task of the doctor is to do no harm.
Can anyone paraphrase the highlighted sentence?
Source: SAT essential words

 

[Keith Bradford]

panacea = cure-all
sovereign (adjective) = potent
chronic = long-term
complaints = illnesses

 

[Hermione Golightly]

'Panacea' is in our WR dictionary while 'sovereign' is the word in the SATS and is defined there.
No quotation marks!

 

[sobhan]

'Panacea' is in our WR dictionary while 'sovereign' is the word in the SATS and is defined there.
No quotation marks!

How about the complaint? Chronic also have several meanings.

 

[Hermione Golightly]

Many words have several meanings. The first definitions for 'chronic' are exactly what you want and with a little thought the meaning of 'complaint' that you need will be clear.
Looking through dictionary definitions to find the right one is an important part of the learning process. It will improve all your study skills. You could then use us to check that you have correctly understood.

 

[sobhan]

Many words have several meanings. The first definitions for 'chronic' are exactly what you want and with a little thought the meaning of 'complaint' that you need will be clear.
Looking through dictionary definitions to find the right one is an important part of the learning process. It will improve all your study skills. You could then use us to check that you have correctly understood.

But the point is that when you are learning hesitations come to you! You have to make sure that every thing is ok. for example right here I was dubious whether complaint means sickness! I haven't ever heard complaint under such meaning!