improvement vs remedy

improvement

noun
  • Something which is improved 

  • Increase; growth; progress; advance. 

  • The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering 

  • Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. 

  • A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. 

  • The state of being improved; betterment; advance 

  • The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse. 

remedy

noun
  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease. 

  • The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc. 

  • The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong. 

verb
  • To provide or serve as a remedy for. 

How often have the words improvement and remedy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )