nostrum /nos·trum/ (nos´trum) a quack, patent, or secret remedy.
nostrum [nos´trum]
nostrum (nos´tr
m),
nos·trum (n s tr m)n. A medicine whose effectiveness is unproved and whose ingredients are usually secret; a quack remedy. |
Patent Medicine
A bottled mixture of herbs and plants, often in a 25% to 50% alcohol base, that was most popular from the 1870s to the 1930s, primarily in the American West; patent medicines were huckstered as cure-alls for conditions ranging from smallpox to cholera, and sold by mail or in travelling medicine shows
nostrum [nos´trum]
a quack, patent, or secret remedy.
nostrum (nos´tr
m),n a remedy not substantiated by scientific evidence or broadly accepted by the scientific community. Some herbal supplements may fall under this category.
nostrum
a quack, patent or secret remedy.
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