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- medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription
How To Use patent medicine In A Sentence
- The new display focuses primarily on the role of patent medicines from 1870 to 1906.
- Objective : To study the method of extraction of active ingredient from complex Chinese patent medicine.
- Try some of this new patent medicine.
- Try some of this new patent medicine.
- They buried Jake Spoon by moonlight on the slope above the creek and, after some discussion, cut down Roy Suggs and little Eddie, plus the old man Dan Suggs had killed, a drummer named Collins with a wagonful of patent medicines. The Lonesome Dove Series
- Like a vile-tasting patent medicine, they appreciate the need for treatment, but find it hard to swallow.
- The general stock consists of patent medicines of all kinds, proprietary goods, toilet requisites, perfumes, smelling and perfume bottles, and a host of other useful articles.
- He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
- The data obtained can be used as a reference for controlling soluble mercury contents in Chinese traditional patent medicines containing cinnabar.
- Due to the lack of government drug inspection and regulation during this era, patent medicines and medical treatments such as tonics, tablets and electrical body belts are well represented - University of Washington Libraries January 2009