How to Use patent medicine in a Sentence
patent medicine
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With the patent medicine business in its prime, elixirs and liniments promised relief from every complaint under the sun.
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Lloyd Minor,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2019
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But more than that, widespread opiate use in Victorian America didn’t start with the patent medicines.
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Jon Kelvey,
Smithsonian,
3 Apr. 2018
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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.
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Lloyd Minor,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2019
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Perfume labels, posters advertising circuses, patent medicines, 5-cent cigars, and all manner of things — even ear tags for goats.
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Carl Nolte,
SFChronicle.com,
8 July 2018
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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.
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The Economist,
3 Aug. 2019
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Many patent medicines ended up relying on large quantities of morphine or cocaine to give users a high instead of actually healing them.
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Ben Panko,
Smithsonian,
8 Feb. 2017
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This solution certainly beats going to the IMF, which will offer its patent medicine of fiscal contraction, and perhaps capital controls.
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The Editorial Board,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2018
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That meant people turned to the massive industry of patent medicines, brewed concoctions marketed by people professing medical knowledge.
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Kat Eschner,
Smithsonian,
29 Mar. 2017
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