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Patent medicine   /pˈætənt mˈɛdəsən/   Listen
Patent medicine

noun
1.
Medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription.





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"Patent medicine" Quotes from Famous Books



... a night of seven years, prosperity dawned in America. The revival of business in the United States {58} proved as contagious in Canada as had been its slackening in the early seventies. The Canadian people gave the credit for the improvement in health to the well-advertised patent medicine they had taken just before the change set in; and for some years all criticisms of the N.P. were fated to fall on ...
— The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier - A Chronicle of Our Own Time • Oscar D. Skelton


Words linked to "Patent medicine" :   medication, medicine, medicinal drug, nostrum, medicament


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