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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nostrum  \Nos"trum\  (-tr[u^]m),  n.;  pl  {Nostrums}  (-tr[u^]mz). 
  [Neut.  sing.  of  L.  noster  ours  fr  nos  we  See  {Us}.] 
  1.  A  medicine,  the  ingredients  of  which  are  kept  secret  for 
  the  purpose  of  restricting  the  profits  of  sale  to  the 
  inventor  or  proprietor;  a  quack  medicine. 
 
  2.  Any  scheme  or  device  proposed  by  a  quack. 
 
  The  incentives  of  agitators,  the  arts  of  impostors 
  and  the  nostrums  of  quacks.  --Brougham. 




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