We find, however, in the gallery of nostrums that grace the advertising pages of the International Journal of Surgery, that Sulfuryl Monal has its place.
They were among the first of the nostrums examined for the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, and the false claims made for them were exposed.
Formerly exploiters of either vicious or worthless nostrums were wont to boast that their preparations were exploited in a “strictly ethical manner.
The dangers of the older nostrums are accentuated in the newer by the added element of risk that is inseparable from intravenous therapy.
Similar as the formulas of these two nostrums were said to be, the general methods of exploiting them were even more similar.
Perhaps you have been led to believe that the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry is composed of “theorists” and that the nostrums represent the work of “practical men.
That is the fact that we must keep clearly before our minds when endeavouring to estimate at their proper value the nostrums of writers such as those with whose works we have been dealing.
This generous offer was not made until the inventor of the nostrums had enriched herself by enormous fees drawn from the credulity of the rich of every sect and rank.
Sage tea, and hot foot-baths, and the doctor's nostrums had not cured her yet.
The nostrums which are so particularly recommended by grooms and farriers ought never to be made use of.
And mindful of all those intolerable evenings, when these same Radical nostrums had been forced down his throat at his own table, he threw a pugnacious look at his wife, who smiled back serenely in reply.
And mindful of all those intolerable evenings, when these same Radical nostrums had been forced down his throat at his own table he threw a pugnacious look at his wife, who smiled back serenely in reply.
A well-known tonic was at the time of the investigation one of the most prominent proprietary nostrums in the country.
Many fraudulent nostrums are advertised as blind advertisements in the "Personal" columns of the daily press.
When the formulæ were demanded it was discovered that all nostrums belonged to a certain class.
Every cent invested in any of these nostrums is money wasted.
Those who bought these nostrums not only wasted their money, but they threw away any chance of relief they have, by failing to adopt the proper treatment until it was too late.
This was followed up by the salesmen informing all applicants for the prominent nostrums that they were wasting money.
Yet with all this that store was unable to get rid of its patent-medicine trade, and to-day nostrums comprise one-third of its entire business.
They are owned by men who know them to be swindles, and who in private conversation will almost always evade the direct statement that their nostrums will "cure" consumption, epilepsy, heart disease and ailments of that nature.
Purchasers of these nostrums not only waste their money, but in many cases they throw away their only chance by delaying proper treatment until it is too late.
Many of the ordinary testimonials which come unsolicited to the extensively advertised nostrums in great numbers are both genuine and honest.
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising.
Nostrums there are, however, which reach the thinking classes as well as the readily gulled.
First of all, most nostrums make a point of the mass of evidence.
The control is as complete, though exercised by a class of nostrumssomewhat differently exploited, but essentially the same.
Should the department apply these principles to the patent-medicine field generally, a number of conspicuous nostrums would cease to be pat-, rons of Uncle Sam's mail service.
If the American woman would withhold her patronage from these secret nostrums the greater part of the industry would go to pieces.
For this purpose, the ancient physicians carried signets or rings, frequently worn upon the thumb, and on which were engraved their own names, sometimes written backwards, or the denominations of the nostrums they vended.
Then, too, his wares cure all diseases, from a ravaging consumption to a frame-shaking hooping cough; and not unlikely are as efficacious as thenostrums of the less Mundivagant professors of patent empiricism.
He is immune to superstitious belief in and respect for the mysterious power of political or economic nostrums to reconstruct human society according to the Marxian formula.
Economic nostrums are blown willy-nilly in the unending battle of human instincts.
Several of the prescriptions in "The Queen's Closet" are to cure people at a remote distance, by applying the nostrums to a linen cloth previously wet with the patient's blood.
He was dosed with various nostrums that held full sway in the nursery even until Federal days, "Daffy's Elixir" being perhaps the most widely known, and hence the most widely harmful.
As the negro races kneel before their fetiches, trees and serpents, so this century kneels before sleeping somnambulists, dancing and writing tables, and mixtures and nostrums from the apothecary shop.
There are numerous widely advertised nostrums frequently sold as soothing syrups to be used during the teething or during attacks of diarrhea, or cough spasms, croup, or worms, that contain dangerous drugs and should not be given to children.
Among the butchers he is believed to be an agent of the duke, who has assumed the character of a vendor of nostrums simply as a disguise, while among the Armagnacs he is regarded as an agent of Orleans.
I doubt not that the nostrums he sells are perfectly harmless, and that though they may not cure they will certainly not kill.
When the stomach is peculiarity irritable, (from teething,) it is of paramount necessity to withhold all the nostrums which have been so falsely lauded as 'sovereign cures for cholera infantum.
No wonder we hear of spring fever and spring biliousness, and have thousands of nostrums for clearing the blood in the spring.
I knew another infant that was poisoned by the nurse giving it laudanum in some of those patent nostrums which these ignorant creatures carry secretly in their pockets, to secure quiet in their little charges.
It would be more tedious than profitable to reproduce their prescriptions, most of which recommend nostrums too fanciful for this matter-of-fact age.
The indiscriminate use of patent nostrums and sovereign remedies of whose constituents we know nothing, and by which powerful drugs are imbibed at haphazard, can not be too greatly deprecated.
In illustration of this last observation, it may further be observed, that most of the nostrums advertised as cough drops, etc.
Remedies, from time to time, have been devised, not merely to serve as nostrums for all diseases, but also for the pretended purpose of prolonging life.
From universal remedies or panaceas, to nostrums and specifics, such, for instance, as pretend to cure the same disease in every patient, is easy and natural.
The native population of India, in spite of the contrary accepted opinion, are remarkably free from resort tonostrums that lay claim to being antidotes.
Throughout the patent-medicine era it was the common practice to ascribe an Indian, or at least some geographically remote, origin to all of these nostrums and panaceas.
The triumph was now complete, for the legislature had made every man a doctor, and nostrums of every description and admixture could now be safely prescribed, and payments therefor exacted by authority of law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nostrums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
