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It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome

Meaning of "patent medicine" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PATENT MEDICINE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PATENT MEDICINE

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Patent medicine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PATENT MEDICINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

patent medicine

Patent medicine

Patent medicines are compounds promoted and sold as medical cures that do not work as promoted. "Patent medicine" is a misnomer since in most cases, although products might be trademarked, they are not patented. In ancient times, patent medicine was sometimes called nostrum remedium. The promotion of patent medicines was one of the first major products highlighted by the advertising industry, and many advertising and sales techniques were pioneered by patent medicine promoters. Patent medicine advertising often promoted the advantages of exotic ingredients, even though their actual effects came from more prosaic drugs. One group of patent medicines — liniments that allegedly contained snake oil, supposedly a panacea — made snake oil salesman a lasting synonym for a charlatan.

Definition of patent medicine in the English dictionary

The definition of patent medicine in the dictionary is a medicine protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PATENT MEDICINE

patent agent
Patent and Trademark Office
patent attorney
patent engineer
patent fastener
patent holder
patent infringement
patent law
patent leather
patent log
Patent Office
patent right
Patent Rolls
patent still
patentability
patentable
patented
patentee
patently
patentor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PATENT MEDICINE

alternative medicine
biomedicine
Chinese medicine
colchicine
conventional medicine
folk medicine
general medicine
geriatric medicine
herbal medicine
internal medicine
medicine
nuclear medicine
occupational medicine
physical medicine
piscine
preventive medicine
sports medicine
telemedicine
traditional medicine
tropical medicine
veterinary medicine

Synonyms and antonyms of patent medicine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «patent medicine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PATENT MEDICINE

Find out the translation of patent medicine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of patent medicine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «patent medicine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

专利药
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la medicina de patente
570 millions of speakers

English

patent medicine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पेटेंट दवा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطب براءات الاختراع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

патент медицина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

medicina de patente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পেটেন্ট চামড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

médicaments brevetés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kulit paten
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Patentmedizin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

売薬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

특허 의학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paten kulit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuốc bằng sáng chế
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காப்புரிமை தோல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चांगले चमडे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

rugan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

medicina di brevetto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

patent medycyna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

патент медицина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

medicină brevet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιατρική διπλωμάτων ευρεσιτεχνίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

patent medisyne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

patent medicin
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

patent medisin
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of patent medicine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PATENT MEDICINE»

The term «patent medicine» is regularly used and occupies the 61.171 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PATENT MEDICINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «patent medicine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «patent medicine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about patent medicine

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2 QUOTES WITH «PATENT MEDICINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word patent medicine.
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William O. Douglas
No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Jerome K. Jerome
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATENT MEDICINE»

Discover the use of patent medicine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to patent medicine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Popular Science
EVOLUTION OF PATENT MEDICINE. BY LEE J. VANCE. wonderful remedy works like a charm " — so reads a -•- bold advertisement now lying before me. Why should any patent medicine work like a " charm " ? The modern notion of a ...
2
American Reformers, 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed
he began a series of editorials against patent medicine manufacturers and called on his readers to boycott their products. In the course of his journalistic assault, Bok made a careless mistake. He obtained a report from the Massachusetts State  ...
Steven L. Piott, 2006
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The Muckrakers
The patent medicine producers were large advertisers, and as such influenced the editorial contents in many of the periodicals. If an editorial breathed one adverse word about patent medicines, the makers withdrew their advertising.
Arthur Weinberg, Lila Shaffer Weinberg, 1961
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Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and ...
The terms 'proprietary' medicine and 'patent' medicine were also frequently used. A 'proprietary' medicine was one 'the sale of which is restricted by patent' [1]. However this is not strictly true, as the term was also applied to a medicine for ...
Stuart Anderson, 2005
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The American Disease : Origins of Narcotic Control: Origins ...
The unregulated patent medicine craze in the United States hit its peak in the late nineteenth century — a time when the opiate content in these medicines was probably also at its highest. The characteristics of opium and its derivatives were  ...
David F. Musto Professor of Child Psychiatry and History of Medicine Yale School of Medicine, 1999
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Indian Short Stories,1900-2000
In 1868 he established the Utkal Printing Company at Balasore and also published a journal. He translated several classics from Sanskrit into Oriya. It was the firm order of the mistress that the Oriya Patent Medicine Fakirmohan Senapati .
‎2005
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Mark Twain and Medicine: Any Mummery Will Cure
Jane Clemens's fascination with patent medicine was immortalized through her son's account of Aunt Polly's enthusiasm for medicating Tom Sawyer: “His aunt was concerned. She began to try all manner of remedies on him. She was one of  ...
K. Patrick Ober, 2003
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Medicine in the Old West: A History, 1850-1900
Part of the psychology ofthe patent medicine manufacturers was that most of the readers of their advertising enjoyed reading vivid and morbid descriptions of illnesses.1 If the advertising copy was cleverly worded, many of these readers would ...
Jeremy Agnew, 2010
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Pharmaceuticals and Society: Critical Discourses and Debates
To do this we compare patent medicine advertising with contemporary DTCA, highlighting the role of federal regulation of pharmaceuticals and advertising as a constraint on medicalisation during the 20th century. We rely primarily upon ...
Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, Peter Davis, 2009
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Encyclopedia of White-collar Crime
Hadacol was a wildly popular patent medicine that swept through the American South and then much of the nation in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Although it was little more than vitamin B and alcohol, sales of Hadacol exceeded $24 ...
Jurg Gerber, Eric L. Jensen, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATENT MEDICINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term patent medicine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pharmacists Council seals 236 pharmacies, medicine stores in Ekiti
The manner in which the people (Patent Medicine Sellers) protested suggested that it was a premeditated attack. “They threw dangerous ... «The Punch, Jul 15»
2
NC's 'Our Bob' once fed on publicity just as Trump does today
Born in Buncombe County in 1884, Reynolds trained for his career in politics by selling patent medicine in Chicago, acting in vaudeville, ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
3
Nation Marks One Year Free From Polio
These include traditional birth attendants and patent medicine vendors. While the main focus is on achieving complete eradication of polio, the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
4
Lake Forest College students "dig" Chicago — literally
Others have found a patent medicine container, fragments of a milk bottle from a dairy and a pint bottle for liquor. The driveway where they are ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Nature in Short / Barappa-manju wheat dumplings and sarsaparilla …
... and the Caribbean, were once a popular patent medicine in the United States, thought to cure skin disease and prevent venereal disease. «The Japan News, Jul 15»
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Govt seals 29 illegal patent medicine stores
The affected Patent Medicine Stores and unregistered premises include Goodnews Store located at 8, Badore Road, Folarin Bus-stop, Ajah; ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
7
13 Classics From Adland's Golden Age
Definitely, by the Sixties, phony snake oil and patent medicine advertisements from the turn of the century were long since abolished. «AdAge.com, Jul 15»
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Somerset's Roger's Family Restaurant to get makeover, but the Red …
Roger and Marilyn Laflamme bought the business in September of 1959 when it was primarily at spa, selling milk, eggs, patent medicine, ... «Wicked Local Somerset, Jul 15»
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Illegal Drugs: Lagos Task Force Seals 29 Medicine Stores
Lagos State government yesterday sealed off at least 29 illegal patent medicine stores in the metropolis. Permanent secretary, Lagos State ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
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Lagos seals 29 illegal patent medicine stores
Worried by the danger posed by the activities of illegal operators of patent medicine and pharmaceutical stores in Lagos, the State government ... «WorldStage, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Patent medicine [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/patent-medicine>. Apr 2024 ».
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