nostrum

nostrum
noun /ˈnɒs.trəm,ˈnɑ.strəm/
A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.

Nay, he would sometimes retire hither to take his beer, and it was not without difficulty that he was prevented from forcing Jones to take his beer too: for no quack ever held his nostrum to be a more general panacea than he did this; which, he said, had more virtue in it than was in all the physic in an apothecarys shop.


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  • nostrum — UK [ˈnɒstrəm] / US [ˈnɑstrəm] noun [countable] Word forms nostrum : singular nostrum plural nostrums formal an idea for solving a problem, especially an idea that is unlikely to be effective …   English dictionary

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