How to Use patent medicine in a Sentence

patent medicine

noun

• In the 1670s, what came to be called Jesuit bark had made its way into a popular patent medicine, along with rose leaves, lemon juice, and wine.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
• With the patent medicine business in its prime, elixirs and liniments promised relief from every complaint under the sun.
  — Lloyd Minor, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Medicine shows were the entertainment arm of one of the era's most powerful industries: patent medicine.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• But more than that, widespread opiate use in Victorian America didn’t start with the patent medicines.
  — Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 3 Apr. 2018
• Fast forward to 2019 and the echoes of patent medicine in today’s marketplace are resounding, complete with claims of panacea treatment and the co-opting of real science.
  — Lloyd Minor, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Perfume labels, posters advertising circuses, patent medicines, 5-cent cigars, and all manner of things — even ear tags for goats.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
• In a deal that creates a behemoth in the market for everyday drugs, Pfizer agreed to merge its off-patent medicines business with Mylan, a generics drugmaker.
  — The Economist, 3 Aug. 2019
• Two of the handmade figures represented a banjo player and a character dubbed Doc Cogwheel, a patent medicine salesperson.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Many patent medicines ended up relying on large quantities of morphine or cocaine to give users a high instead of actually healing them.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
• This solution certainly beats going to the IMF, which will offer its patent medicine of fiscal contraction, and perhaps capital controls.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2018
• That meant people turned to the massive industry of patent medicines, brewed concoctions marketed by people professing medical knowledge.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024