 | John Boag - 1848 - 744 Seiten
...air U inhaled and exhaled in respiration. NOSTRUM, nos' tram, [L., from notttr, ours,] n. A modicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose...the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor. NOT, not, [Sax. naht, or »oht; Scot. nocAt,] adv. A word that expresses negation, denial or refusal.... | |
 | Chapin Aaron Harris - 1855 - 816 Seiten
...to one's country. NOSTOMA'NIA. Nostalgia, madness of. NOSTRILS. Nares. NOSTRUM. From nosier, ours. A medicine the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of securing to the proprietor the profits arising from the same ; a private or quack medicine. NO'TAL.... | |
 | 1872 - 780 Seiten
...Townshend, Publisher and Bookseller, 177 Broadway, New York. Price, 25 cents each. Editorial. Nostrum. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret...the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor. (Webster.) Literally our OIVH : applied to quack medicines retained for profit in the hands of the... | |
 | 1881 - 598 Seiten
...the diseases they are to be used for. They may be termed nostrums. A nostrum is defied by Webster as "a medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret...the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor." It docs not matter what purpose the proprietor has in trying to keep a secret of the ingredients; it... | |
 | 1881 - 596 Seiten
...termed nostrums. A nostrum is defied by Webster as "a medicine, the ingredients of which are kejit secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor." It does not matter what purpose the proprietor lias in trying to keep a secret of the ingredients;... | |
 | Hiram V. Sweringen - 1882 - 628 Seiten
...by various routes along the northern Chinese frontier. NORWAY SPRUCE. Seo Abies Exi-claa. NOSTRUM. A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret,...profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor ; a quack or patent medicine. NUCIN. A peculiar principle formed by the action of acids on a peculiar substance... | |
 | 1882 - 648 Seiten
...the diseases they are to be used for. They may be termed nostrums. A nostrum is defined by Webster as "a medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret...the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor." It does not matter what purpose the proprietor has in tryiug to keep a secret of the ingredients; it... | |
 | Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association - 1884 - 240 Seiten
...the best means to counteract it? (See Minutes, page 122.) The word nostrum is denned by Webster as "a medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret,...to the inventor or proprietor." "A quack medicine — a medicine which is boastfully pretended to perform cures, and to contain virtues which it does... | |
 | 1914 - 1282 Seiten
..."NOSTBUM." A "nostrum" is a quack, patent, or proprietary medicine recommended by its proprietor, or one the Ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose...the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor (citing Words and Phrases, vol. 5, p. 4831). 3. LIBEL AND SLANDER (§ 0*) — LIBELOUS WOHDS. It is... | |
 | 1891 - 634 Seiten
...understands it, is, it seems to me, a misnomer. The word nostrum is more applicable; for the definition of nostrum is: "A medicine the ingredients of which are...secret for the purpose of restricting the profits to the inventor or proprietor; a quack or patent medicine " (Webster). As the composition of the article... | |
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Dictionary defines a nostrum as " a medicine the ingredients of which, and the methods of compounding them, are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor. 
