Category:Nostrum

Nos"trum n.; pl. Nostrums. Etym: [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.