| nostrum | Origin: Neut. Sing. Of L. Noster ours, fr. Nos we. See Us. 1. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine. 2. Any scheme or device proposed by a quack. "The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks." (Brougham) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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panacea: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
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Patent medicine is the term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were for the most part actually trademarked medicines, not patented. They were also sometimes called nostrums, a Latin word meaning "ours" or "our own"; a "nostrum" is any proprietary mixture of drugs. ...
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NOS-truhm\, noun: 1. A medicine of secret composition and unproven or dubious effectiveness; a quack medicine. 2. A usually questionable remedy or scheme; a cure-all.
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| nostrum | hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases |
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