Though you try many medicines that claim to cure your cold, none of them work. They turn out to be nostrums, or ineffective drugs.
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
Noun
patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
Noun
hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists
n.
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for
the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or
proprietor; a quack medicine.
n.
Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
Nostrum
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks.
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
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