Patent medicine

Definition

A commercially sold remedy advertised as treating or curing disease; nineteenth-century claims were often unsupported.

Used by OCR

Paper 1

Patent medicines promised cures, while poultices applied to the skin and tinctures swallowed or rubbed onto the body were common treatments. These did not provide a reliable cure for cholera.
Revise: Responses to cholera

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GCSE History · key term

A commercially sold remedy advertised as treating or curing disease; nineteenth-century claims were often unsupported.

Used by OCR

Paper 1

Patent medicines promised cures, while poultices applied to the skin and tinctures swallowed or rubbed onto the body were common treatments. These did not provide a reliable cure for cholera.
Revise: Responses to cholera

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