patent medicine
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The school, which occupied a massive home that patent medicine entrepreneur and Civil War surgeon Col.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
Popular since the 1840s, root beer, which, like so many of America’s sodas, straddled the line between patent medicine and soothing nonalcoholic libation, was enjoyed as a hot beverage or as a carbonated soda.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023
A bottle of patent medicine, still half-full of “extract of liverwort,” sold by Shakers in the early 19th century to support their fledgling religious community.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2016
While it is widely known that John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, invented Coke as a kind of patent medicine, it was in fact his second drink.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2013
It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
