PATENTMEDICINE

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 .

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patent medicine

Noun

  1. A medicine that is protected by a patent.
  2. Any medicine with a proprietary formula which can be bought without a prescription, irrespective of whether it is protected by a patent.


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