Has the “patent medicine” promoter ever dared to insult the intelligence of his patrons by a cruder absurdity?
As the more flagrant evils of the “ethical proprietary” question were mitigated, the Association has turned the light on the more widespread and dangerous “patent medicine” evil.
A clipping that deals with alcoholism, patent medicine, and tuberculosis must be posted in three places, or cross-referenced; otherwise it will be used to answer but one question when it might answer three.
We take up our morning journal: its columns are crowded by patent medicine advertisements.
Great and public men are sometimes induced or inveigled into recommending a patent medicine.
One term arose in common speech to apply to both, and it was "patent medicine.
At the same time, the essential recipe of a patent medicine, deprived of its original cognomen and given a Latin name indicative of its composition or therapeutic nature, might suddenly appear in one of the official volumes.
Then its printer had returned to England, where he took up the career of a patent medicine promoter, vending "the only Angelical Pills against all Vapours, Hysterick Fits.
The head and center of this non-patent medicine cure-all is Douglas Smith.
It is simply one more evidence added to the long list already noted that one does not readily acquire the habit of expecting to read the truth in a patent medicine advertisement.
If we heard such stories in every-day life we would smile credulously at our informant and doubt his sanity, but in a patent medicine advertisement we expect to read of miracles and we almost hope to be told of impossible happenings.
I am not going to have the name of Melville dragged all over the country in a patent medicine advertisement.
Think of Sir Roger de Melville--and a patent medicine advertisement!
Perhaps of all features of patent medicine advertising, this is the most alluring.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patent medicine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
