The National Pure Food Law requires the percentage of alcohol in patent medicines, and the presence of different dangerous drugs, to be stated upon the label.
The Christian Advocate of New York city deserves special mention for having published in 1898 two articles written by Mrs. Allen under the caption, "The Danger and Harmfulness of Patent Medicines.
It has been necessary to make many changes in this edition because of the changing views on alcohol and the publicity on patent medicines.
These true "patent medicines" are generally artificial products of chemical manufacture, such as phenacetin.
The physician who prescribes them could with just as much reason prescribe any of the various alcoholic “patent medicines” of the “women’s tonic” type.
The articles devoted to “patent medicines” or quackery being naturally of greater interest to the general public than to the medical profession, the number of inquiries from laymen regarding various quacks and nostrums has steadily increased.
I had tried three doctors--took over one dozen bottles of patent medicines, without relief.
We are aware that there is a popular, and not altogether unfounded prejudice against "patent medicines," owing to the small amount of merit which many of them possess.
It is the best medicine in the world for "female troubles," for I took almost all kinds of Patent Medicines, and doctors' prescriptions without benefit.
Had tried many kinds of patent medicines--many doctors, all in vain.
Patent medicines” are exploited by this class of “companies.
People recommend mountains to their friends as they do patent medicines.
Emboldened by this easy coercion of the press, certain firms have since used the newspapers as a weapon against "price-cutting," by forcing them to refuse advertising of the stores which reduce rates on patent medicines.
Sidenote: Cocain in patent medicines] There are a number of different medicines which depend for their action wholly upon the cocain they contain.
Sidenote: Why alcohol is used in patent medicines] The prescribing of alcohol by physicians has chiefly descended from the ancient idea that alcohol was strengthening and beneficial to the body.
It has been authoritatively stated that more alcohol is consumed in this country in patent medicines than is dispensed in a legal way by licensed liquor venders, barring the sale of ales and beer.
Duplicity and misrepresentation are not confined to patent medicines.
They are always bad, and never under any circumstances are they of any advantage, as is clearly shown in the chapter on "Patent Medicines.
The pure food and drug act compelled the manufacturers ofpatent medicines to publish the formulæ of their remedies on their labels.
But so strong a public sentiment had been created against the whole business ofpatent medicines by this time that the jury gave a verdict of only sixteen thousand dollars, with costs, against the magazine.
Footnote 4: Young, James Harvey, The Toadstool Millionaires, A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation.
We intimated that "patent medicines" had added greatly to the trade.
The front windows contain only patent medicines, and the flashy signs that announce their virtues.
The penny paper advertised fifty-two foods, garments, whiskies, patent medicines, or beautifiers urged upon health grounds.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patent medicines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
