The phrase "an attempt to cure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made to heal or remedy a condition, illness, or problem.
Example: "The researchers conducted an attempt to cure the disease through innovative therapies."
Alternatives: "an effort to heal" or "a bid to remedy".
I recommend Peter Balakian's "Black Dog of Fate," in an attempt to cure her of her genocidal impulses.
As a child, Sibley says, she was given vitamin B6 in an attempt to cure her autism.
Caroline Stern's dental office on West 57th Street seems like an attempt to cure toothaches by distraction.
In an attempt to cure the Knicks' poor play late in games, Chaney decided to do more scrimmaging to simulate game conditions.
Recently, the prolific (seventeen books and counting) author Isabel Allende confessed that, in an attempt to cure writer's block, she had dosed herself with a shamanic medicine from the Amazon called ayahuasca.
They were concerned in particular about a gruesome crime known as "corrective rape" — an assault in which a man rapes a lesbian in an attempt to "cure" her sexual orientation.
During the year doctors in Germany used a similar strategy in an unsuccessful attempt to cure three transplant recipients who had contracted rabies from infected donor organs.
When his wife developed lung cancer, Mr. Wheelwright dived into research and experiments with laetrile and other controversial drugs in an unsuccessful attempt to cure her.
When Hope grew ill with cancer, Mr. Wheelwright, still a scientist at heart, "dived into research and experiments with laetrile and other controversial drugs in an unsuccessful attempt to cure her," his New York Times obituary noted in 2001.
One of those credited with popularizing the mat is Susanna Lindelöw, 46, who bought a mail order nail mat made in Russia in a desperate attempt to cure severe lower back pain.
What results is an immensely detailed overview of Marley's life and times, from the hillside Jamaican shack where he grew up to the snowy Bavarian clinic where he spent his last weeks in a fruitless attempt to cure the cancer that killed him in 1981, aged 36.
