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NOS-truhm
noun
a panacea; a cure-all remedy; a secret recipe for medicine; snake-oil
1912ManaliveI must say that for a clergyman to countenance, even in jest, such discredited nostrums of dissipated demagogues as Socialism or Radicalism partakes of the character of the betrayal of a sacred trust.1982The White Plague...he dosed himself not only with specifics to which his medical standing gave him access but also with nostrums…2000The Hades FactorIn Iraq, life for most people was basic, and this doctor, whose work had been published widely, who once had traveled the globe to address pediatric conferences, was reduced to nostrums and yogurt.Labels: Frank Herbert, G. K. Chesterton, Galye Lynds, Robert Ludlum
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