palliative vs remedy

palliative

noun
  • Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine. 

adj
  • Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. 

  • Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease. 

remedy

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

  • Something that corrects or counteracts. 

  • 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 palliative and remedy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )