NOUN
- medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription
How To Use patent medicine In A Sentence
- He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
- To realize the compatibility use of Chinese patent medicines containing medicine ingredient together with western medicines.
- We are exposed to chemicals everywhere, in oven cleaners, detergents, patent medicines, hair sprays-everywhere.
- A 1929 European pharmacopoeia listed 80 patent medicines whose ingredients were radioactive: they came in the form of bath salts, liniment, suppositories, and toothpaste.
- This research is an effort to create an awareness. of the potential hazards of some Chinese patent medicines which contain mercurial ingredients.
- Like a vile-tasting patent medicine, they appreciate the need for treatment, but find it hard to swallow.
- More likely, it had particular currency for a British public that had been besieged for years with outrageous claims for cure-all tonics, pills, oils, and cordials in the ubiquitous advertisements for patent medicines.
- A 1929 European pharmacopoeia listed 80 patent medicines whose ingredients were radioactive: they came in the form of bath salts, liniment, suppositories, and toothpaste.
- Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle.
- For instance, he collects on his little card index all references in Wells to feeding, eating, and patent medicines.
