Synonyms for patent medicine

Grammar : Noun

Définition of patent medicine

noun proprietary medicine

Example sentences :

Art in America is like a patent medicine, or a vacuum cleaner.
Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley

Why, man, it would be patent medicine then, and no one could take it from you.
Extract from : « The Bag of Diamonds » by George Manville Fenn

We read a patent medicine circular and shudder with seven diseases.
Extract from : « The Crisis, Complete » by Winston Churchill

It might just as well have been any other patent medicine, or any fake cure.
Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague

Its a patent medicine, but lots of fellows use it in training.
Extract from : « For the Honor of Randall » by Lester Chadwick

Many brewers have been knighted, but no patent medicine man.
Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke

He's got a newspaper, and a patent medicine, and a new bank, and I don't know what else.
Extract from : « The Fallen Leaves » by Wilkie Collins

"Sounds like the name of a patent medicine," observed Chunky.
Extract from : « The Pony Rider Boys in New England » by Frank Gee Patchin

America is the great field of operation for the patent medicine vender.
Extract from : « The Galaxy, April, 1877 » by Various

A very good laxative (though it is a patent medicine) is Beechams Pills.
Extract from : « Family Limitation » by Margaret Sanger

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