patent medicine
Example Sentences
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Most of these nonalcoholic spirits are unsweetened or only very lightly sweetened, making them taste more like old-fashioned patent medicine than beverages.
From Seattle Times
It has over 16,000 employees and more than 1,300 patent medicine regulations, according to its website.
From Reuters
Formulas like this helped spawn a market in patent medicines, sold out of suitcases by bamboozlers promising miracle cures.
From New York Times
When more and more people began to learn of the alleviation of symptoms found in the application of snake oil-based patent medicines, tonics or lotions, it intensified a market for quick-relief products.
From Washington Times
Having succumbed to the lure of opiate-laced patent medicine, her stern father has become a shell of his former self.
From Seattle Times
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