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To be fair, it technically cures any number of ailments as well as modern medicine: You die of something other than the treated disease.
But if your standard for effective treatment is "Died of something other than the disease", there are easier ways to reach that goal.
That sounds like a strawman to me... Has anyone actually proposed that as a technical definition of “cure”? If I had to come up with one, I'd use “die after more QALYs than you would have without the treatment”.
Poe's law.