| 单词 | nostrum |
| 例句 | Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Superstition was a widely available nostrum for people powerless against the miseries of famine, pestilence and deadly doctrinal conflict. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The show's strongest sections shoot down fashionable parenting nostrums – and they're funnier because he's a childless man, winging it. Russell Kane – review 2012-10-29T17:26:22Z In return they were shills For his nostrums and pills: Their “oblige” lacked a certain noblesse. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) He and Engels stage both a theoretical and an organizational coup, replacing utopian nostrums about the brotherhood of man with a doctrine of conflict between the proletarian and the bourgeoisie. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Guy skewers sloppy thinking, describing nostrums and alternative cancer treatments as like "running into a burning building and trying to put the fire out by means of interpretative dance". Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z “Production for use” may be the dubious political nostrum that landed Williams on death row, but it also could stand as the slogan for the brilliant economy of Hawks’s filmmaking. He Said, She Said, We Said, You Said 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z She fillets it with ease and relish — revealing the paucity of research supporting the usefulness of everything from annual physical exams to meditation — and dismantles nostrums about the innate balance and wisdom of the body. Barbara Ehrenreich Urges Us to Accept, Accept the Dying of the Light 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Brooks is neither mocking nor endorsing her self-help nostrums, but if anything George is a little envious of Lisa's relentlessly positive attitude and her refusal to be dishonest with herself. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z “You have value,” he tells her at one point, repeating another therapeutic nostrum he picked up from Beth. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z Now I believe him, but I’d add that it’s not a joyful religion, not a terrifying or awe-inspiring one, but a wet blanket of piety that replaces passions with palliatives, and mysteries with nostrums. What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Storr’s main focus, though, is on some nostrums that emerged in the 1960s, especially from the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calif. Esalen was a sort of hub for the counterculture of its day. How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Those are the actions of an insatiable egotist, an emotionally stunted, overly intellectual man-child who cannot quite see other people as real and defaults to pathetic teenage yearbook nostrums: “The heart wants what it wants.” How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z Rather than trust the material’s power to teach by example, the film dispenses extended-release doses of standard Disney nostrums—the primacy of family, the centrality of praise. ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Disney Trips on a Tesseract 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z True, there are a lot of venerable nostrums in her advice: show, don't tell; write what you know; keep a taut chain of causation; wince over your adjectives and adverbs. Monkeys With Typewriters by Scarlett Thomas – review 2012-10-13T23:05:32Z This is a breezily rebellious film that challenges all our oh-so-serious nostrums about teenagers and sex and family life, a bittersweet song of innocence and experience that's often very funny and hardly ever cruel. "Easy A": The summer's biggest comedy surprise 2010-09-17T01:01:00Z Mr Ma rejects Milton Friedman’s nostrum that “the business of business is business”, namely that companies exist only to make a profit and that philanthropy should be strictly personal. Crocodile of the Yangzi 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z There is the tendency also to extract seemingly plain aphoristic nostrums from essays or works of fiction with manifestly ironical intent. The Sharp Force and Disgraceful State of the Modern Aphorism 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It showed up in operating rooms as an anesthetic, was used as a key ingredient in innumerable nostrums and beverages—one of which evolved into Coca-Cola—and became a go-to stimulant for recreational users. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z A list of places is given where these nostrums can be bought, and one of them is "the Ben Jonson's Head, near Yorkhouse". Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z The big themes of this book are economic decline, the flux of social class and the obsolescence of socialist nostrums. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z The introduction and the last two of the book’s four chapters wander through meadows of half-baked observation, trading rigorous Kantianism for the nostrums of tote-bag liberalism. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z It is full of desperation and hope, and it does not settle for nostrums. 'Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback' review: A closer look at the King's evolution 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z In the flesh, the document is an agglomeration of misinformation, platitudes and premasticated nostrums. Column: The false centrism of political group No Labels 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Christie’s other nostrum is to raise the retirement age. Column: Sorry, Democrats — Chris Christie's attacks on Trump don't make him a moderate 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z Marketers of economic nostrums such as cryptocurrency and gold investments don’t win customers by proclaiming that happy days are here again. Column: Bidenomics has been a boon for working class voters. Why don't they give him credit? 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z He retailed the familiar anti-vaccine trope that those nostrums have been deliberately suppressed by the pharmaceutical industry and government authorities. Column: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to your health — and our democracy 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Worthless nostrums such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been promoted based on transparently bogus evidence. Column: Anti-vaxxers loved to cite this study of COVID vaccine deaths. Now it's being retracted 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z President Joko Widodo envisions the construction of a new capital as a nostrum for the problems plaguing Jakarta, reducing its population while allowing the country to start fresh with a “sustainable city.” Why is Indonesia moving its capital from Jakarta to Borneo? 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Much of the public believes a useful but unsupportable myth about the so-called liberal media, and the media themselves have been cowed by conservatives into repeating their nonsensical nostrums virtually nonstop. Fascists expertly exploit the free press: Media rush to rehabilitate reputations of Trump's regime 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z That sentence should have read: “As the Trump administration diddled with nostrums and quack cures, the new surgeon general kept forfeiting his integrity.” Opinion | Jerome Adams should have listened to his wife 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Never mind that the FDA’s statutory responsibility is to keep injurious nostrums out of the marketplace. Column: The right wing gets its knives out for California's new medical misinformation law 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z And it wouldn’t be America had there not been the quacks, showmen with snake-oil nostrums at the ready: garlic derivatives, copper treatments, patent remedies like “Tuberculene” — active ingredient, creosote. Southern California’s curious history as the sanitarium capital of America 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Before his nomination, Harding stated, “America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “Those weary of threadbare liberal economics and repelled by present-day conservative nostrums will find here a great deal to ponder,” Winner added. Hazel Henderson, environmental activist and futurist author, dies at 89 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Musk himself has been a purveyor of damaging misinformation and disinformation on Twitter — promoting the useless anti-COVID nostrum hydroxychloroquine as well as economically dubious cryptocurrencies, for example. Column: Is Elon Musk already looking to bail out of his Twitter deal? 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The old nostrum that France is ungovernable may be tested again. In Le Pen Territory, as France Votes, Anger at a Distant President 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Their nostrums about peace and development aside, what Mr. Xi and Mr. Putin clearly seek is a world made safe for their dictatorships. Opinion | Russia and China announce a bid to make the world safe for dictatorship 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Even Mr. Obama’s stimulus bill and the Affordable Care Act owed as much to conservative nostrums about the market and runaway spending as they did to liberal notions of fairness and equality. Opinion | Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Charlatans promoted useless nostrums, diverting precious resources away from research into legitimately promising treatments. Column: How our COVID-19 disaster grew directly out of our income inequality crisis 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z As I’ve reported, this is a vacuous mantra that plays up the state’s avoidance of conservative nostrums such as deregulations and low taxes, but doesn’t explain why the state has been booming. Column: The California recall is fascinating — especially if you're an East Coast TV anchor 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Diets and exercise, the usual nostrums, almost always provide short-term weight loss, at best. New Drugs Could Help Treat Obesity. Could They End the Stigma, Too? 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z First, that Republican voters aren’t necessarily wedded to ideological nostrums about limited government, and so a politician can succeed in a Republican primary by running, as Trump did, against elements of movement-conservative orthodoxy. Opinion | Win or Lose, Trump Will Hold Power Over the G.O.P. 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z As coronavirus anxiety began to spread across the land, so did bogus nostrums promising protection from this modern-day plague. How to Boost Your Immunity 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Would you have endorsed dangerous nostrums or mocked sound public health advice? Opinion | Republican senators, it’s not too late to help save your country 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z "Guys, conservatives are at fault for an interminably-repeated nostrum from the Left, because the Left realized it was stupid now," conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said. NY Times op-ed mocked for declaring 'Believe All Women' mantra is a 'right-wing trap' 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The rhythms and nostrums of the seminary appealed to Brown, shaped him, motivated him. Review: Jerry Brown gets the biography he deserves 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Medical patients resort to useless nostrums all the time. Column: Experts lose enthusiasm for chloroquine coronavirus treatment promoted by Trump 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The conservative nostrum of cutting corporate taxes and reducing regulation has led merely to more money funneled to shareholders and top executives. It's not too soon to think about how to give workers consistent raises 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s advisers and defenders turn to the old nostrum — just because he may be paranoid does not mean people are not out to get him. A Presidency Increasingly Guided by Suspicion and Distrust 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Talmadge was a reactionary who had come to big business’ notice by promoting such crude anti-labor nostrums as concentration camps for strikers and moving on to attacks on New Deal reforms. Column: The Democrats' Wall Street wing hates Elizabeth Warren. They hated the New Deal too 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In short, a substantial share of right-leaning voters in this country were willing to embrace, or at least countenance, a brand of conservative politics with fewer free-market nostrums and more appeals to potent sociocultural anxieties. Conservative Nationalism Is Trumpism for Intellectuals 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Clinics offering stem cell-based nostrums in the U.S. typically use cells derived from fat, removed from patients by liposuction, purportedly treated to concentrate the stem cells, which are then injected into a customer’s body. Column: A gruesome case study points to the hazards of stem cell tourism 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Celery was claimed to purify blood, calm nerves and relieve stomach disorders, and celery nostrums proliferated, starting in 1868 with a tonic that remains popular today as Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda. Everything you didn’t even know you wanted to know about celery 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The answers, claimed the editorial, are not rocket science: the old nostrums of universal background checks, banning semiautomatic rifles that resemble weapons of war and putting limits on “high-capacity magazines.” Opinion | Seeking sensible answers to yet more senseless gun violence 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Traditional conservative nostrums of tax cuts for the best-off and business-friendly deregulation were not answering the needs of less affluent Republicans. Opinion | The real wall is between conservatism and fresh ideas 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The Mondale defeat exposed how broken was the party — captive of special interests, of New Deal nostrums discredited a generation earlier, of regional and generational tension. Review | Carter and Kennedy’s bitter battle for the presidential nomination in 1980 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Gessen, a Russian-American journalist who won the 2017 National Book Award for “The Future Is History,” about the return of totalitarianism in post-Communist Russia, has spent her career challenging prevailing nostrums. Opinion | Must Writers Be Moral? Their Contracts May Require It 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Conveniently enough, the nostrums pushed by autocratic populists exacerbate the very problems they claim to be addressing, deepening the crisis that gives them the excuse to rule. Opinion | Democracy is in crisis around the world. Why? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z A strong selling point of the proposal is that, unlike the nostrums currently being served up by Trump and the Democratic left, the New Center’s compromise actually corresponds to a broad spectrum of public opinion. Opinion | Most Americans have common ground on immigration. Congress should listen to them. 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Or the equally timeless and meaningless nostrum, “Candidates matter.” Perspective | What’s the one big lesson from the midterms? That there is no one big lesson. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As an ancient nostrum for epilepsy, stroke, cancer, tetanus or rheumatoid arthritis, the two-inch-long arthropods are supposed to be eaten dried, powdered or after being steeped in alcohol — not raw. Maybe You Were Thinking About Eating Raw Centipedes. Don’t. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The thing to do, these worrywarts counsel, is have all candidates stick to bland centrist nostrums, saying nothing that anyone might disagree with. Opinion | Republicans are trying to make Democrats self-implode 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Which brings us to a final economics nostrum: “regulatory capture.” Opinion | Why fuel-efficiency standards won’t actually curb gas consumption 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Which may be a good reminder that skepticism is in order whenever someone waves the flag of “science” to justify the latest antihuman nostrum. The Population Bomb Was a Dud 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “This has always been a policy nostrum of the elites, sort of a big lab test in which the lab rats — the regular people — wanted no part of it,” he said. Congestion Pricing Plan for Manhattan Ran Into Politics. Politics Won. 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z No, Trump's simple nostrums don't answer any real needs, because they are not even complete ideas. Opinion | Can North Korea Trust Us? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z If the clinic’s nostrums are useless, he’s going to find that he’s continuing to decline. Should I Accept a Cash Reward for Doing the Right Thing? 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z But they are the right ones, and they lay bare the extent to which the softer nostrums of higher ed today shortchange the intended beneficiaries. Opinion | America’s Best University President 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Never in modern times has there been an occupant of the Oval Office who seemed to reject so thoroughly the nostrum that a president’s duty is to bring the country together. A Divider Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z A nostrum that suggested that the very structure of the Internet defied our historic concern for monopoly. Perspective | How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It should be focused on the real threats – a disintegrating world order and the growing unpredictability of thousands of jihadis in the UK – not just a set of old leftwing nostrums. We need a new defence strategy – Donald Trump has hung Europe out to dry | Paul Mason 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Desperately in need of education, skills, and opportunity they are instead are offered nonsense, nostalgia and nostrums from the modern medicine show that is the Trump Administration. Opinion | What Trump’s Budget Means for the Filet-O-Fish 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z With big personalities and an appeal to nationalism, they won support by conspicuously rejecting neoliberal policy nostrums such as reducing the size of government and privatizing state-owned industries. Protests sweeping South America show rising antigovernment anger 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z That a plurality of voters were not sufficiently tempted by Mr. Trump’s nostrums offers some comfort, but only some; Mr. Trump won the vote that counts, for the electoral college. New Year’s resolution 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Regular readers of this page know that the Journal Star editorial board occasionally differs with the Platte Institute on its policy nostrums. Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Yet Stockman notes that “35 years later, the U.S. economy is fatally hobbled with $64 trillion of public and private debt. It needs fiscal and financial discipline, not supply-side nostrums.” Before Trump’s tax plan, there was ‘voodoo economics’ and ‘hyperbole’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z If left-leaning candidates are eliminated in the first round of the presidential vote, their supporters may balk at Mr. Fillon or be tempted by Ms. Le Pen’s populist nostrums. The French election that may help determine the future of the democratic West 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Trump offered mostly vague and contradictory national security nostrums during the campaign. Trump promised to be 'unpredictable' in foreign policy. How will that work? 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z He includes nostrums like this: Buy only investments you understand. Three Excellent Books on Long-Term Investing 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Your experience in a green room full of quack nostrums completely confirms what I've always suspected.It's a duck. What’s Missing in Dr. Oz’s TV Exam Room 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z So it’s worth rethinking old nostrums about trade and the public. Americans actually don’t hate trade agreements 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z He has let himself be terrorized into chanting the usual politically correct nostrums. Ban the Box? An Effort to Stop Discrimination May Actually Increase It 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Trump traffics in pseudo-uplifting nostrums about making America great again and how much “we” will “win” once he is president. Trump’s suicide mission: He’s not trying to destroy his own campaign — the destructive urge he represents is much bigger than that 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The upshot of Carnegie’s philosophy—some would call it a series of nostrums—is something any good mother teaches her children, and a precept Roman poet Publilius Syrus voiced in 85 B.C.: Still Winning Friends and Influencing People 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z She even called for “a proper industrial strategy,” a nostrum usually associated with the opposition Labour Party. The tough path ahead for Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Only two, describing the superiority of a carbon tax, the option the Partnership exists to plump for, compared to other climate nostrums. Climate Denial Finally Pays Off 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z In addition to putting Mr. Sanders’s socialist nostrums on display, the platform negotiations are likely to spur an ugly fight over the U.S. relationship with Israel. Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead he offers vague nostrums about reducing “waste, fraud, and abuse,” a promise made by every presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter. The Candidates Have to Get Real About Our Debt 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Xi is calling his next big economic initiative “supply-side structural reform,” a deliberate echo of the nostrums of tax cuts and deregulation advocated by those conservative Western leaders in the 1980s. Xi Jinping’s Remedy for China’s Economic Gloom Has Echoes of Reagan 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The FBI will continue to collect evidence, Donald Trump’s vulgarity will continue to offend the high-minded, Bernie Sanders’ radical welfare-state nostrums will continue to affront common sense, and the show will continue to stagger on. WESLEY PRUDEN: The election when nobody showed up 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z If he is going to get both sides to set aside old nostrums, demonstrating some humility himself is a good way to begin. Paul Ryan says what few pols say 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Echinacea—long debated as a possible nostrum for colds and flus—is typically sold as capsules or as a tincture, or alcohol extract, which can be mixed with water and taken several times daily. Can Echinacea Melt Winter’s Colds and Flu? 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The school focused its curriculum on politics and economics, with a healthy skepticism about the latest New Deal-style nostrums and a high regard for the lessons of America’s constitutional experience. When the College Madness Came to My Campus 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Promise adherence to one of the nation’s policy nostrums of the time—or, in this case, two. China Auto Giant’s Tesla Dreams Are Hard to Fathom 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The people who are being attracted to these easy to grab hold of nostrums are not the mass of voters. What do Trump and Corbyn have in common? - BBC News 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z To survive as a nation we must return to them, and quickly, lest the forces of evil cement alternative nostrums into place we will live to regret. Charleston Church Shooting Demands a National Day of Prayer and Mourning 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Having shown some humanity, however, he was also content to fall back on a number of all-too-familiar Republican nostrums. G.O.P. Has Little New to Say About Baltimore 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z If these nostrums and patterns of behavior aren’t updated, they will end up doing far more damage. The Biggest Threat to America’s Future Is ... America 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z And the anti-corporate nostrums of liberal economists like Paul Krugman – addressed in my previous column, “Education Is The Answer To Income Inequality” – are not making the resolution of this interruption any easier. A Staggering 36 Million Americans Lack Basic Work Skills 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z He would do so by investing more in universities, enhancing innovation and productivity, and–no buzzword or nostrum here–increasing population. Égalité à la Thomas Piketty All the Rage in Tokyo 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Simply taking a contrarian position or advocating for dubious but do-no-harm nostrums is unlikely to get you in trouble with the licensing authorities. Meet the Latest Driver of the Anti-Vaccine Clown Car (Who Thinks You're a 'Bad Mother') 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course, despite their zeal for federalism, many conservatives never really agreed with Justice Brandeis’s nostrum to begin with. Don’t Look to States for New Ideas 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The Paris massacre should put to rest those dangerously misleading nostrums. Terrorist Attack In Paris Proves We Must Defeat The Islamist Jihadists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The Nov. 1 editorial “A reset with Israel” viewed as a “nostrum” U.S. opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank. It’s Israel’s job to reset relations with the U.S. Or when he marshals the most recent and reliable data to demolish the most cherished nostrum of free-marketeers: that higher taxes and bigger government strangle job creation and economic growth. ‘We Are Better Than This’ Edward Kleinbard, and ‘Seven Bad Ideas,’ Jeff Madrick For example within a few hours the internet will be overflowing with nostrums, essential oils, tree bark, eye of toad and essence of newt promising to prevent or cure Ebola. Five Ethical Points Now That Ebola Has Entered To The USA 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Yet it’s unclear that Sen. Santorum’s endorsement of such Big Government nostrums as raising the federal statutory minimum wage will prove an apt way to excite a steadfast conservative base. Who Is Rand Paul? 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z She would likely be one of the loudest critics, even espousing Madisonian nostrums about the beauty of checks and balances. HOLMES: What Obama’s power grab says about liberalism 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Alas, the deal’s terms were typical IMF antigrowth nostrums and encapsulate all the bad economic dogma that’s plaguing the world today. How NOT To Rescue Ukraine From Collapse 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It is an oft-repeated nostrum that the French keep separate in their minds the private and the public, and will not be swayed in their judgement of the president by considerations of his infidelity. A bachelor in the Elysee 2014-01-26T15:50:49Z This nostrum certainly applies in the world of the press. Hollande's 'affair' tests French limits 2014-01-10T16:27:20Z Both conspiracy and cover-up are nostrums designed to reassure us that our feelings of powerlessness and irrelevance are justified. JFK and the rise of conspiracy theories 2013-11-08T17:17:22Z But how does this directly impact the homeland? In other words, the public may have had enough of elite nostrums regarding humanitarian causes and projecting power. The Slow Death Of Defense 2013-10-31T15:01:00Z The nostrums of some management gurus sound remarkably like those of the “progressive” educationalists of the 1960s. Schumpeter: Montessori management 2013-09-05T15:00:47Z I have previously argued here that too many environmentalists have gotten stuck with some cosy nostrums that they are reluctant to take a long hard look at. Technology as our planet's last best hope 2013-07-15T14:38:16Z We weren’t going to read former secretary of defense Don Rumsfeld’s book, “Rumsfeld’s Rules,” a collection of aphorisms and anodyne nostrums he’s collected and espoused over the years. Rumsfeld’s Rules: ‘Leadership lessons’ on war and life 2013-05-20T16:00:08Z And there may be something to the hype over the age-old nostrum. Got camel milk? It’s catching on in some global markets 2013-03-11T02:46:23Z Was he vigorously medicating himself with lead-based nostrums in hopes of forestalling what Dr. Ross argues was probably progressive retinal detachment, then recovering from lead poisoning once his vision was irretrievably gone? Books: Woe Is Syphilis, and Other Afflictions of Famous Writers 2012-11-26T20:22:34Z It became a nostrum among rank-and-file Republicans that mainstream opinion polls are biased and should be ignored, for instance, and that voter fraud is rampant and explains much of the Democrats’ inner-city support. Lexington: State of denial 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z In a studiedly folksy manner, he explains how he rejects the nostrums of both parties. Moderates under pressure: The excluded middle 2012-10-11T15:07:28Z He also challenged another government nostrum by saying the OBR did not accept government claims that public sector pensions as currently paid were unsustainable. Greek euro exit could throw UK 'into long-term recession' 2012-05-18T14:56:33Z For dyspepsia the doctor has no nostrum, but he thrusts a needle into the patient’s liver and expects him to be immediately cured. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Learned and unlearned alike profess to be able to understand almost every disease that the Chinese race are subject to, and to have nostrums of their own that will cure those that are afflicted. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z He's proudly testimonialised; folly or purchased cunning Crack up his nastiest nostrums, keep his worst deceptions running. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z What, then," cried Mr. Arden, "you acknowledge that you did see this gentleman at Holyhead, and did cure his horse by some nostrum in your possession! The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Butler uses this verb as descriptive of the encomiums empirics heap upon their nostrums. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Their chief object, however, was not to provide a free entertainment, but to dispose of their nostrums to the crowds which the entertainment brought together. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Avoid the habit of regarding yourself as an invalid, and of taking nostrums. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The graft that has been uncovered lately in connection with the preparation and sale of medicines, drugs and nostrums is almost incredible when we think of the danger to health and human life involved. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z We will raise the tariff, to the point of prohibition, on all Yankee manufactures, including wooden-nutmegs, wooden clocks, quack nostrums, &c. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Intellectual weakness, frequently brought on by excesses, has proved a rich source to empiricism; hence the belief in mystic and supernatural agencies, and the power of certain nostrums. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z All nature was ransacked for out-of-the-way and horrible things which could be used as drugs and nostrums for suffering and gullible sufferers. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z To think that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all the diseases flesh is heir to. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z How many useless or poisonous nostrums of our own compounding do we call by the name of the true restorative! Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Take this nostrum, swallow it with the juice of the pomegranate flower; if you do this, you will have a son in due time. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z For this purpose, the ancient physicians carried signets or rings, frequently worn upon the thumb, and on which were engraved their own names, sometimes written backwards, or the denominations of the nostrums they vended. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But a truce to stories suggested by the queer nostrums of quacks. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z And to make matters worse, the Fijians, recognizing the evils of too frequent conceptions, drink nostrums to prevent them, probably injuring thereby the child at the breast. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The juggler was robed in a doctor's gown, and after performing a trick, he distributed nostrums for various ailments, free of payment. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Another is our inability to accept that national problems cannot be wished away by simplistic slogans and nostrums. Kennedy, Reagan, Loved for All the Wrong Reasons: Robert Dallek 2011-11-30T00:38:45Z He then became a prosperous general practitioner in St. Louis, distributing worthless nostrums with the rest. Books: ?Open Wound? Book Review - Doctor and Patient, Bound Together 2011-11-28T19:51:45Z Empirics, however, often believed in their nostrums, and were, sometimes, amiable and unselfish. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Dr. Beach tells us that "a negro at the south obtained his freedom by disclosing a nostrum for the bites of snakes, the basis of which was the plantain." The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z With respect to the treatment of gout the greatest variety of opinion has prevailed and practice been pursued, from the numerous quaint nostrums detailed by Lucian to the “expectant” or do-nothing system recommended by Sydenham. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The national embrace of Kennedy and Reagan is at one with the attraction to nostrums. Kennedy, Reagan, Loved for All the Wrong Reasons: Robert Dallek 2011-11-30T00:38:45Z Some of them have a few nostrums of their own, the composition of which is unknown to every one but themselves. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Not a single puff did Alfred omit; he noticed every new book, and swallowed every new nostrum. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z "Or a nostrum that shall be sure work on a horse with a farcy?" asked one of the grooms. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Blistering-plaster seems a patent nostrum, which they take internally, for they managed to use up two ounces of mine in as many weeks, and I have no doubt it warmed their insides. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z But the light and the air invigorate and strengthen, and nature is a surer medicine than the nostrums of the quack physician. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z Thereafter, it is mostly Bolt-court—poor blind Miss Williams gone, by this time, and also the sorry physician who had been long a pensioner on him, and whose nostrums he had taken out of charity. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Swift was acquainted with the current nostrums, which he despised. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z Mrs. Holmes died of cancer of the breast, which is responsible for the only occasion perhaps on which Franklin was ever known to incline his ear to the virtues of a nostrum. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Clerk o’ the Free for All,’ says he, ‘’lows ’tis a wonderful nostrum t’ make the old feel young.’ Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z He mixes it himself, and likes no one prying about to espy his secret, though in reality his success is due to watchful care and not to any particular nostrum. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z It is no quack’s nostrum, no reputed conqueror of ache or ailment. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z We expect the logs down by daylight, and then—I guess their arrival in the boom will do more to mend his poor broken shoulder than all our quacks and nostrums. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The advertisements of the nostrum maker have proved especially effective, and printer's ink, properly administered, has been a most potent remedy. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "What can make them fix on such a fellow?" asked the man of nostrums. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z China finally escaped from Mao Zedong’s mad doctrine of perpetual revolution and from the enfeebling nostrums of central planning; it became an industrial powerhouse. Henry Kissinger on China 2011-05-14T03:18:15Z Many nostrums have been out there for years. The Wizard of Innovation: ex-McKinsey Master Dick Foster 2011-05-10T17:02:33Z This prescription is the more dangerous because it is recommended in the hidden guise of nostrums by hysterics with blatant alcoholophobia. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The ways of the nostrum vender are ever the same. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The gentleman who built this house," she explained, "had already grown rich in the manufacture of the famous ribless umbrella before he acquired a second fortune from a nostrum warranted to cure dyspepsia. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z He greatly increased the disorder by prescribing a fashionable nostrum. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Am I, then, entitled to demand of you for the nostrum the whole of your property, more or less? Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z To reach this serious source of degeneracy from alcohol and the narcotics, statement on each bottle of the exact composition of nostrums should be exacted by law. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Another favorite field for the nostrum vender is the series of pains and aches associated with the menstrual condition. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Just wait a bit, and see if the natural goodness of constitution won't do more for her than all your nostrums. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z The root of another species of Rumex, called Tutt, is believed to be a nostrum for barbarous and criminal purposes; but, happily, it is quite innocent. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z They took the patient under their charge, applied their nostrums and when they were not busy seemed to enjoy talking his symptoms over in low tones. Louisiana 2011-02-18T03:00:21.217Z I’ve wanted for a long time to ask you about this music cure that everybody is talking about, and get you, if possible, to write me out a list of musical nostrums for every-day use. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Every other nostrum from the beginning of time has made this same appeal. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It is a well-known nostrum for civil dissension to stir up foreign conflict, and then to call upon the patriotism of men from all parties. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Rather than condemn and punish, let's try to understand and repair – the old liberal nostrum. Give Pakistan cricket team a chance of redemption 2010-08-31T11:14:00Z A generation invested a higher proportion in stocks, fed on the nostrum that risk was outmoded. The End of Wall Street 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z But even that nostrum collides with British electoral practice: Because of the delineation of electoral boundaries, the party winning the most votes, as in the United States, does not necessarily win the most legislative seats. Letter From Europe: The Worry Over British Consensus 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z Simple remedies that are well known combinations of ordinary drugs receive high-sounding names, usually derivatives from the Greek or the like, and are claimed to work just as many wonders as the old-fashioned nostrums. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z That nostrum holds true in a new century, albeit from a bleaker, more perilous perspective. 2010-01-22T14:22:00Z Many nostrums have been suggested, but few are of any utility. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. "There is such a nostrum," said the Doctor. The Inventions of the Idiot And many a nation, in Sismondi's opinion, will perish, before the nostrums of its state physicians have been expelled from the general opinion of man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The ordinary definition of a nostrum includes the idea of secrecy. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z His medical knowledge was wholly empirical; restrained by the authority of Galen, and debarred from the practice of anatomy, nothing more could be expected than that he should stumble on some fortunate nostrums. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Whether it was by reason of these nostrums, or her own excellent constitution, the queen was fortunate enough to escape from the sick-room without a scar. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 I'll manage somehow to get well enough, if I swallow every nostrum under the sun. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story The Mediterranean became a Roman lake,—mare nostrum, they said,—and the same life circulated on all its shores, called for the first and the last time to a common existence. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The Weapon Ointment.—Among the most famous nostrums, and a striking example of the great r�le played in therapeutics by mental influence and coincidence, is the Unguentum Armariam or Weapon Ointment. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Every keeper or sportsman has, or professes to have, some never-failing nostrum or other. The Dog The whole Life of Society must now be carried on by drugs: doctor after doctor appears with his nostrum, of Coöperative Societies, Universal Suffrage, Cottage-and-Cow systems, Repression of Population, Vote by Ballot. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time When Dr. Rawlins arrived next morning, he found that his bottle of medicine had been like the quack nostrums advertised in the newspapers, and had worked a lightning cure. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story "You had no other nostrum for tranquillity but to extinguish life." The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life It is possible, however, to find, masquerading under the head of the efficacy of nostrums in the past, the equivalents for all the activities of mental healing of the present. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The nostrums which are so particularly recommended by grooms and farriers ought never to be made use of. The Dog The worst of all quacks are those who would administer their sovereign nostrums to the constitution of their country. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Horticulturists have been deceived enough by patent nostrums. The Apple Confine your prescriptions to the body,—that is tangible, and may be handled and scrutinized; but venture no nostrums for a heart and soul of which you know nothing. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Then the nostrum vendors proceeded to supply something just as good. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z This French business, on the other hand, is a nostrum and a mere excrescence. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Many nostrums are sold for the clearing of cider, but none is necessary and most are harmful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" I prefer lime wash to any "nostrum" ever introduced. The Apple There, along with his survey of the heavens, the shepherd who kept watch upon the stars applied also his shameful nostrums, made his essays upon the bodies of animals. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Every quack in history, from Galen's weaver, who became a leech, down to the last street corner nostrum vendor, does the same thing. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He swallows the nostrum whole; there has been no play of mind, no instruction, and, except for some brute utility in the prohibitions, no advance. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) She listened chafing to the neighbours' advice—and every one of them had their nostrum—and heeded none of them. An Isle in the Water The smell in Uraka's hut is the smell of the "rotting past," that, in spite of all nostrums and artificial revivals, goes on decomposing. Atta Troll Both sides in this dispute had their abettors; and to say which had the most truth and reason, non nostrum est tantas componere lites; perhaps both parties might be too fond of their own schemes. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Of the after effects, the less said the better, but there is no doubt that many women acquired the alcohol habit through indulgence in these nostrums. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But he had a lingering favourable impression of the Warroo medicine-man, whose faith in the efficacy and painlessness of his nostrum was evident, however much was uncertain in his version of its provenance. When Ghost Meets Ghost A good many, I should think, must have fallen victims to these nostrums. 65Each morning regularly we went down to harass the steamship employees. Gold And so I held desultory consultations across the counters of chemist's shops, and, supremely ignorant as to causes, attacked symptoms with trustful energy, consuming great quantities of mostly valueless and frequently harmful nostrums. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography You'd scarce believe, now, half the nostrums, Possets and strangely nasty herbal juices That girl has made me gulp, in the vain hope That I, the frog, should swell to an ox like thee. Collected Poems Volume Two What is said of the nostrums used for deafness? A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) One of these is taking patent medicines and nostrums. Confessions of a Neurasthenic Old ladies were always offering her their advice, recommending this or that nostrum; young ladies looked at her in a way she understood, and from which she shrank. Shirley And at the time when Matabel was under instruction the nostrum was the physical geography of the Holy Land. The Broom-Squire And yet I know that what I gave was but mental nostrums, narcotics, to stupify until death might end the suffering. Carmen Ariza They also have often suffered much from quack nostrums, "only to grow worse." Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Viewed from the perspective of the mid-20th century, it may seem strange if not shocking that the maiden effort of such a college should be publicizing formulas for nostrums. Old English Patent Medicines in America “A nostrum for jilted beaux!” called out a mountebank, seeing him standing there, preoccupied, alone, 482 at the same time tendering a pill as large as a plum. The Strollers Among the many nostrums offered to Ireland, nobody offers soap. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule And to think o’ the likes o’ you dictating to me about nostrums and physickings,” replied the farm-wife, with a comfortable laugh. The Hound From The North This weighty matter seemed to require the cooperation of the vice consul, Mr. Beaver, a highly respected quack doctor, whose principal nostrum was faith cure plus hot water. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas By the 1750's, the names of several old English nostrums were appearing fairly frequently in the advertising of colonial apothecaries, not only in Boston but in other colonial towns. Old English Patent Medicines in America He desired not revolution but the restoration of the health of humanity, and like so many others, he had his nostrum—the drama. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists A nostrum on your toil-hardened hands brings back, to keen anticipation, the skin of youth. The Prisoner It is to be found neither in municipalization, nor nationalization, nor confiscation, nor any of the nostrums advocated so wearisomely by sensation mongers. Morals in Trade and Commerce One has only to scan the advertisement pages of the Shetland newspapers to note the persistent way in which quacks of all shades bring their nostrums before the notice of the islanders. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland As the nostrum proprietor did so much to pioneer in advertising psychology, so he also blazed a trail with respect to distinctive packaging. Old English Patent Medicines in America But it is much easier to prescribe the means of preventing the disorder, than to point out a specific remedy; and the nostrums generally given on this subject are either ineffectual or injurious. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The Colonel would then name some nostrum, also decided upon during the long night. Sunlight Patch The number of quacks and venders of nostrums is immense in every city who gain a livelihood by the credulity of the multitude. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton "They'll kill him with their dam nostrums," said he to the last member of the Club he spoke to, a chance ex-Secretary of State for India, whom he took into his confidence on the doorstep. Somehow Good These mixers of baby medicines ought to be fed nothing but their own nostrums. Old English Patent Medicines in America Well, who has been cramming you with nostrums? The Brothers Karamazov Professor Williams speaks of this conduct as follows: "These were the acts of a charlatan peddling some secret quack nostrum." History of Education Where in this task our hearts do faint and fail, are there not other means than the discredited nostrum of Philosophy to revive our hopes and recruit our forces? Progress and History Century Dictionary defines a nostrum as "a medicine the ingredients of which, and the methods of compounding them, are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor." The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) It was this partnership which was to find the field of nostrum promotion especially congenial and which was to play an important transatlantic role. Old English Patent Medicines in America And even then, with all my fundamentally rotten sociological nostrums, I had a vague feeling that the Scotchman was right there. The Message Industrial Education, alike for boys and girls, is the true remedy, worth more than all the nostrums of politicians and demagogues. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 These efforts are such conspicuous failures that even the patent medicine man has not found his "anti-fat nostrums" the happy means to fortune. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure This method of saving the doctor's fee is engendered by those physicians who themselves write prescriptions for nostrums. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) A certain amount of nostrum literature was undoubtedly imported from Britain. Old English Patent Medicines in America Are you not aware of the existence of our B—— nostrum for pauper children, or our C—— specific for juvenile emigration? The Message This nostrum, it was claimed, would not only cure the disease, but would "absolutely prevent catching the infection." Drug Supplies in the American Revolution He is called arrogant by those who arrogate to themselves the right to "explain" things and to deal in vital spirits and metaphysical nostrums for that purpose. More Science From an Easy Chair Some nostrums have stated, on their label, the names of their ingredients, but not the amount. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) This may well be the first printed reference in America to an English patent medicine, and it certainly is the first newspaper advertisement for a nostrum. Old English Patent Medicines in America Lady So-and-so, who advocated this panacea, found herself bitterly opposed by Sir So-and-so, who wanted all sufferers to be made to take his nostrum in his special way. The Message And as for Van Tassel's Vermifuge, it resembled raw petroleum, and of all greenish-black, loathly nostrums was the most nauseous to swallow. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Another class traversed the country, selling pardons "come from Rome all hot," and extolling the virtues of their relics and the power of their indulgences with the eloquence of a quack vending his nostrums. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 From the above definition it may be seen that the only unreliable medicines are those which are, in reality, nostrums. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) The infrequency of extended fanciful promotion in behalf of the old English nostrums in American newspaper advertising may have been compensated for to some degree in broadside and pamphlet. Old English Patent Medicines in America Whether this be truth or libel non nostrum est. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The use of such nostrums would do more toward confirming than eradicating the habit, if it existed, and would invite and create addiction to an almost hopeless fatality, where the habit had not previously existed. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say If he did so well with a mere nostrum, why should he not have gained riches and a less grotesque fame by the sale of a better article? The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Yet that is exactly the position of a doctor who recommends a nostrum. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) The English original of another nostrum, Essence of Peppermint, he listed at 18 shillings a dozen, his own at a mere 10/6.71 Despite the price differential, importations continued. Old English Patent Medicines in America The leading professional hair-restorers now rely almost exclusively on cantharides, and all the more celebrated advertised nostrums for restoring the hair contain it as their active ingredient. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources It would be hard to estimate the number of young brains ruined, and the maturer opium wrecks from nostrums of this nature. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say At the White Mountains, many grand and beautiful views have been spoiled by these nostrum and bedbug souled fellows. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages The layman naturally adopted the theory and the motto of his medical advisers; hence in his self-medication and also under advice he consumes such vast quantities of purgative nostrums. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis It is no wonder that, although the old English names continue to appear in the mid-19th-century and later druggists' catalogs and price currents,111 they are muscled aside by the multitude of brash American nostrums. Old English Patent Medicines in America Could our poor invalids but pitch their nostrums over the wall, and take this tonic instead! How to Cook Husbands It is said on good authority that the cost of these nostrums does not exceed fifteen to sixteen cents a bottle, and they sell for a dollar a bottle. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say And it is an atrocious piece of vulgarity to flaunt the names of quack nostrums, and of the coarse stimulants of sots, among the beautiful scenes of nature. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Is it our fault or misfortune that our ailments can’t be cured by a paring of St. Bridget’s p. 299thumb-nail, or by any nostrum, sacred or profane, that really cures their votaries? Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Even at that, this appeal, consisting merely of a list of illnesses, lacked the cleverness of contemporary English nostrum advertising. Old English Patent Medicines in America The providence of God is not dependent on patent nostrums; nor is He limited in His healing power to calomel or blue mass. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings The only effectual way of putting an end to the sale of nostrums is to make illegal the advertising of such preparations in the public press. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Otherwise they would say justly that they would be over-run with quacks, all of whom might wish to try a patent nostrum upon the unfortunate ‘inmates of public institutions.’ Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 Everybody has his infallible nostrum for breaking the bank; but everybody looks upon the prospect of such a fortune in a purely commercial light. Stray Studies from England and Italy If meant to liberate him from guilt or cure him of sexual depravity this nostrum had less efficacy than a placebo. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais This nostrum is a compound of some of the ordinary foods with certain well-known aromatic and carminative substances. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock What must have been made on the nostrum to allow such expenditure? Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Ralph had so neglected these ordinances that his tongue refused to repeat the usual nostrums for protection against evil spirits. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 A well-known tonic was at the time of the investigation one of the most prominent proprietary nostrums in the country. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies No scheme of equality, then, can overcome the population difficulty; emigration is only a palliative, and poor-law relief only a nostrum which eventually aggravates the evils of over-population. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Untold harm has been done to boys and to women by these nostrums. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies I have always been aggressively against the advertisements of nostrums. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say "Why, sister Almiry," he protested gently, "I don't need none o' your nostrums!" The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Death by heart failure is on the increase in this country and it may safely be attributed to the indiscriminate use of these powerful and toxic nostrums. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies No. Positively and absolutely, No. Many such nostrums are advertised in the public prints. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male That is the fact that we must keep clearly before our minds when endeavouring to estimate at their proper value the nostrums of writers such as those with whose works we have been dealing. Science and Morals and Other Essays It may well be asked, Would any one of these well-to-do newspaper owners entrust himself, or any of his family, in time of sickness to the cure-all imposters whose nostrums they advertise? Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The more they are used, the worse the poor bees are off: just as the more a man uses the lying nostrums of the brazen-faced quack, the further he finds himself from health and vigor. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual It is, however, a very fair sample of the foolish kind of lies which all of these nostrum venders employ,—they are after, and appeal only to the ignorant. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Human remains ingredients in charms and nostrums, i. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds People put their faith in nostrums more than they do in regular medicines; and it is well known that quack medicines, as they call them, cure as often as others, merely for that very reason.” Japhet in Search of a Father “I am in favor of stopping the advertisements of these nostrums in every paper in the country.” Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say It was therefore a grim necessity which led the Thermidorians of the Convention to try another political nostrum. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Even consumption has been vaunted as an easily curable disease by a hundred different nostrums, though the truth is that it is incurable by any known drug. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies He was dosed with various nostrums that held full sway in the nursery even until Federal days, "Daffy's Elixir" being perhaps the most widely known, and hence the most widely harmful. Customs and Fashions in Old New England A book which treats wisely and delicately of very important subjects, and subjects which ought to be treated by competent hands, instead of being left to quacks and the venders of nostrums. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother Under no circumstances take any of the thousand and one nostrums advertised as sure cures for this disease. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say One of the grossest impositions of this kind—common as it is—is practised upon the public in advertising and selling nostrums as safe and valuable medicines. The Young Man's Guide We may safely feel certain that the nostrum was not liquid oxygen. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Several of the prescriptions in "The Queen's Closet" are to cure people at a remote distance, by applying the nostrums to a linen cloth previously wet with the patient's blood. Customs and Fashions in Old New England He smiled so benignly that had he offered me our family nostrum I should have taken it without a grimace. David Malcolm This diet, together with the abandonment of nostrums, led to a cure. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Then is the breath of battle better medicine than nostrum or salve. Under the Rose Every cent invested in any of these nostrums is money wasted. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The latter clause shows that our great-grandmothers were quite au fait with the nostrums of the present day, with "pargetting, painting, slicking, glazing, and renewing old rivelled faces." Customs and Fashions in Old New England We have a relic of one of these forgotten nostrums in the familiar “Anti-maccassar” known to every good housewife. Pickwickian Studies Insanity, palsy, idiocy, and many forms of physical, moral and mental ruin have followed the sale of these nostrums throughout our land.” Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say It is possible that nostrums may in some exceptional instances prove serviceable, but the greater number of them are capable of producing only injurious effects. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse When the formulæ were demanded it was discovered that all nostrums belonged to a certain class. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies His next procedure is the trial of some vaunted nostrum. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Still there was no use to attempt calming him with the assurance that his nostrum could not be had. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver The American Association for the Study of Inebriety appointed a committee several years ago to investigate the various nostrums advertised especially for the benefit of alcohol and opium inebriates. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say I believe I could fill a volume by the mere enumeration of the diabolical and absurd nostrums offered by knaves to heal men who profess to hold in ridicule the Chinese doctors. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Many fraudulent nostrums are advertised as blind advertisements in the "Personal" columns of the daily press. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies He was also keen in acquiring information about popular remedies and nostrums, from travelling mountebanks, barbers, old women, and pretenders of all kinds. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery There were six native clerks occupied with the sale of this nostrum. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Crime is often inculcated—even the crime of murder, that the nostrum manufacturer may profit thereby. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say There has been, perhaps, a little eagerness on the part of honorable members to associate their names with the particular nostrum that is to build up our national system again. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays Who create in the mind of the expectant mother the fear of untold agonies and then offer immunity to these supposititious tortures at the price of their worthless nostrums? The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The value of music as a therapeutic agent cannot yet be precisely stated, but it is no quack's nostrum. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery By the nostrums which ornament the broken window, we see that poverty is not her only evil. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The nostrums of the quack, the bitters, elixirs, cordials, extracts, etc. nearly all contain alcohol, and this is the ingredient which aids their sale. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say "It is that humanity," said he, "which seeks to palliate disease by the application of nostrums, which scatter its seeds through the whole system." Union and Democracy Those who bought these nostrums not only wasted their money, but they threw away any chance of relief they have, by failing to adopt the proper treatment until it was too late. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Among the latter were to be found such choice nostrums as rectifiers of the vitals, which were warranted to supply the places of all other medicines whatsoever. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery But Birnier accomplished the feat by smoking excessively and by marking with a pencil the various nostrums recommended by the amiable Burton, many of which were hardly less disagreeable than Doctor Bakahenzie’s prescription. Witch-Doctors Indeed, in accepting some of this advertising, newspaper managers had to sign a contract that they would not publish any reading matter opposed to the nostrum business. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say In any event, he begged us to beware of worthless nostrums and base imitations. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." The language and the reasoning of the nostrum vender are not designed to appeal to the trained, educated mind, or to an individual possessing innate common sense. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It should be healed by the power of her mind, not poisoned by the nostrums of a man like Doctor Keltridge, good as gold, but slavish in his adherence to the foolish old traditions. The Brentons Among her nostrums was a bottle of "Jordan Water," which she sold at the modest figure of £15 15s. a flask. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert A secret nostrum is a preparation, the origin or composition of which is kept secret, the therapeutic claims for which are unreasonable or unscientific, or which is not intended for a legitimate purpose. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The facts about hundreds of nostrums can be absolutely determined. Civics and Health The claim he makes of being a graduate of Edinburgh University has been shown to be as false as the claims made for the nostrum he exploits. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "With care, your Grace; and the constant use of my styptic, a most elegant nostrum, your Grace, that has done wonders in the case of a widow up the glen." Doom Castle He paid high prices for various nostrums, and, sad to relate, placed great faith in amulets, belief in which was general in his time, and nowhere held more strongly than in superstitious Rome. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Recently an advertisement of one of these nostrums stated in the headlines that said nostrum was used in the Frances Willard Temperance Hospital, Chicago. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Good—you’re like the apothecary that poisoned his dog to try the effect of his nostrums. The Rifle Rangers Dr. D——'s "—— Compound": This nostrum is sold to relieve the pain of child-birth. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies There were then no troublesome people with philanthropic or political or religious nostrums, proposing to turn the world upside down and introduce an impromptu millennium. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Sage tea was worth all the pills and nostrums in the world. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The prices asked for “secret nostrums” are said by chemists to be ofttimes far beyond the value of the materials. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Is it Brown-Sequard, ending a long life devoted to the torment of living things with the investion of a nostrum that earned him nothing but contempt? An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals It made an impressive advertisement, as most nostrum "ads" are, because, unfortunately, the art of the liar is best expressed in the superlative degree. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies I know one old lady who has been preserved to us these thirty years by no other nostrum than a knot-hole appearing in her garden fence. Journeys to Bagdad Absolutely; in the sense of having no interest of my own to push, no nostrum to advertise, no power to conciliate, no axe to grind. The Tragic Muse A ludicrous example of this is a woman out West, whose picture graces the advertisements of a certain nostrum, accompanied by a testimonial that said nostrum cured her of a “polypus”! Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say We get a good many of these new nostrums from that country. Ethics in Service It was the drug, our own secret nostrum, administered at request of the honoured mother of Okumura. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) How closely he will listen for any squeaking of the Pearly Gates, with a nostrum ready for their dry complaint! Journeys to Bagdad Unfortunately, most of these works are utterly unreliable, being filled with gross misrepresentations and exaggerations, and being designed as advertising mediums for ignorant and unscrupulous charlatans, or worse than worthless patent nostrums. Plain Facts for Old and Young Many use it in the guise of cordials, tonics, bitters, restoratives and the thousand and one nostrums guaranteed to cure all ills to which human flesh is heir. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Sir, we have fallen upon evil times indeed, if the great convulsion which now shakes the body-politic to its center is to be dealt with by such nostrums as these. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Absurd as was the assertion, he sold large quantities of his nostrum and grew rich upon the proceeds. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City It did not really contain a trace of Coltsfoot, and the nostrum was provocative of inflammation, because of the spirit in excess. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure As is the case with a sick man given over by the physicians, the quacks are ready with their nostrums. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Just here a native "medicine man" dispenses nostrums of doubtful efficacy, and in front a quantity of red Moorish pottery is exposed for sale. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond All the agitated reformers who were running about and offering their various nostrums were prepared to confess that something had gone very wrong with modern civilisation. Gilbert Keith Chesterton A recent advertisement of one particular nostrum promises the cure of any one of thirty-seven different diseases. The Recitation For advertising, publicly vending, or pretending to the knowledge and use of any secret nostrum. The Act Of Incorporation And The By-Laws Of The Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society I do not pretend to be a doctor with a nostrum. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z At the time of the Great Plague all kinds of nostrums were sold and recommended as preservatives or as cures. The Social History of Smoking Sounds hard; doesn't it, in the face of almost universal nostrums for the salvation and propagation of the useless? The Canadian Commonwealth Two large cupboards, whose doors were set with glass in diamond panes in the upper panels, held his drugs and nostrums. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel “I want no more of your nostrums,” said Lot. Madelon A Novel Your philosophy, Monsieur Bayle, is to the eyes of the mind what I have supposed the doctor’s nostrum to be to those of the body. Dialogues of the Dead She also gave him of a nostrum of toadwort and garlic, which mollified his lacerated chords, and she prescribed massage of the throat by rubbing against a young beech stem. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 Many speakers and singers have a favorite nostrum for improving the voice. Talks on Talking Naturally irritable, his quick temper was inflamed by intestinal disease, which racked him with a suffering that was aggravated by a nostrum, in the use of which he indulged freely. Great Violinists And Pianists All the doctor's nostrums may not stir my poor dying flesh—but give the spirit—what it craves—and 'tis sometimes—strong enough—to gallop the flesh where it will. Madelon A Novel But few doctors apply them untainted with the mixture of some harsher drugs or some unsafe and ridiculous nostrums of their own. Dialogues of the Dead It is simply offered as a substitute for Fellow's Hypophosphites; whatever therapeutic efficiency that nostrum has, we may count upon obtaining equally from this syrup. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada As a man with an idea, with a philosophical nostrum, Leibniz may be compared to Bishop Berkeley. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil They dug up roots, and they strove for the supplies which the Governor threw into the country, when famine drove Nongkause's nostrum out. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Sage tea, and hot foot-baths, and the doctor's nostrums had not cured her yet. Madelon A Novel The poor old grandparents read all the time of wonderful cures that different dopes accomplish, and they spend every nickel they can get their hands on for nostrums. Letters of a Woman Homesteader After months of inaction, and months of action worse than inactivity, at length comes forth the grand specific, the never-failing nostrum of all state physicians from the daysPg 127 of Draco to the present time. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals There are no nostrums or cure-alls that the colleges can give for all the ills and sicknesses of life. The Plastic Age Still, he had reasoned, the Doctor had been willing instantly to abandon this nostrum when the harm done by it was concretely brought home to him. The Clarion Among the thousand and one quack nostrums, pomade divine, like James's powder, has obtained a reputation far above the most sanguine expectations of its concoctors. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants The native population of India, in spite of the contrary accepted opinion, are remarkably free from resort to nostrums that lay claim to being antidotes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 The educational schemes of truly colossal absurdity come mostly from teachers; all the quack nostrums and elixirs to “restore lost manhood” are invented by doctors, and nearly all the crazy religions are started by preachers. If Not Silver, What? They get over on your side of the fence, and arouse a desire for their nostrums by appealing to your own interests. The Art of Public Speaking None too large, fine, or modern was this last word in architecture for the triumphant nostrum and the minor medical enterprises allied to it. The Clarion This is the true and only nostrum for that purpose. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) I'm infernally cold,—influenza, I reckon, but I won't have any nostrums brought to me. The Cromptons The more worthless the nostrum, the more universal the advertising of it, such is the moral of Hood's satire. English Satires Let us abjure the ever-recommended nostrum of imitation of the old masters in poetry, and rather attach ourselves to homely models, and endeavour, with their help, lovingly and organically to develop their inner life. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Medicine has no virtue merely because it is bad to the taste, and modern medical usage prescribes free air and warm sunshine in large doses in place of the old-time bitter nostrums. The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys Some of them were still filled with his nostrums. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 We are not ventilating a nostrum, we are preaching a divine revelation, a divine revealer. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII You will have heard that it is the history of a patent medicine—the nostrum of the title. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 I have never advocated Tariff Reform as a nostrum or as a panacea. Constructive Imperialism Not one of these men doubted that his nostrum would effect the cure of the republic undermined by slow consumption. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Most of the pills and other nostrums which are used in enormous quantities contain aloes or other drugs which stimulate the action of the intestines. The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition While Adina keeps both these suitors in suspense, Dr. Dulcamara, a travelling quack, arrives at the village in great state to vend his nostrums. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers A fellow named Peel, who has been for many years in the habit of exhibiting as a quack-doctor, next applied for liberty to vend his nostrums at the fair. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 If I can claim no special acquaintance with Ireland, still less have I the presumption or the folly to come forward as the inventor of any political nostrum. England's Case Against Home Rule While the theory of Marxian socialism differs in certain details from these communistic experiments, the foreign-made nostrums so brazenly proclaimed today wherever malcontents are gathered together is in essence nothing new in America. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Nothing is alleged concerning it which is not alleged of various nostrums, namely, out of many thousands who have used them, certified proofs of a few who have recovered after them. Evidence of Christianity What is omitted in all, is just what no doctrinaire, no nostrum can communicate—the breath of life, the principle of organic growth. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series THE QUEEN.—I have heard that you boast of possessing a nostrum for the restoration of the public good. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 But now they were all coming from their retirement—the most active minds, whether the best or not—to shout their nostrums and make confusion worse confounded. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The Tuna story is described as ‘a clear case of disease of language cured by the ordinary nostrum of folk-etymology.’ Modern Mythology Of the three great nostrums so liberally applied by England, extirpation and persecution had entirely failed, but confiscation had done its work. Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Praising openly its virtues, confessing frankly her own weakness and preaching persuasively her own faith, she had distributed the nostrum, and in about a quarter of an hour had established a justifiable confidence. The Lion's Share And then, if one looks in the advertisements of half a century ago, one finds the nostrum dealer loudly proclaiming his capacity to cure what is evidently the Nervous Housewife. The Nervous Housewife This I take to be an Ἕυρηκα, a nostrum; upon which I hope to receive the thanks of this board. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 Among the barbarous nostrums of the uneducated natives both Singhalese and Tamil, is the tongue of the iguana, which they regard as a specific for consumption, if plucked from the living animal and swallowed whole. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 St. Jacob’s Oil, once the most widely advertised nostrum on the continent, cost its promoters a fortune because there was nothing in it that one might not find in some other oil or grease. A Librarian's Open Shelf The body was borne by the chief tenants yet living, and surrounded by chanting monks, whose solemn "Domine refugium nostrum" fell with awful yet consoling effect upon the ears of the multitude. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune Among the barbarous nostrums of the uneducated natives, both Singhalese and Tamil, is the tongue of the iguana, which they regard as a specific for consumption, if plucked from the living animal and swallowed whole. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Articles that are in any way dangerous or offensive, also patent medicines, nostrums, and empirical preparations whose ingredients are concealed, will not be admitted to the exposition. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission The systems of poultry feeding that are commonly advertised are based either on some patent nostrum or a recommendation of green food in novel form, such as sprouted oats. The Dollar Hen The phrenologists, the venders of patent medicine, the Christian Scientists, the single-taxers, and all who proclaim panaceas and nostrums make the same majestic and pontifical appeal to human nature. Emerson and Other Essays How far their nostrums are likely to be adopted, no one can yet say, but some of the utterances of our rulers make one shudder. War-Time Financial Problems I do not offer my book as a mental cure-all, or nostrum that, if swallowed whole, will cure in five days or ten. Quit Your Worrying! We are ruining perfect health by nostrums and quackery. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Well, Doctor," said Iola, laughing, "that is the newest nostrum out. Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted No one disputes this, and it is your business to prove that the nostrum you peddle is religion. Half a Century There is no nostrum, no receipt for taking it away. The Silent Isle Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, denounced this proposition as a quack nostrum. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 For centuries and centuries it had been the tomb of the Ferraguts; with good reason they had called it "mare nostrum." Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel She talks much about her melancholy in her verses, but, with singular good sense, she recognised that it was physical, and she tried various nostrums. Gossip in a Library It was like using common nostrums on a disease which could be treated by none but a special physician. My Brilliant Career Some form it regularly; as, asylums, compendiums, craniums, emporiums, encomiums, forums, frustums, lustrums, mausoleums, museums, pendulums, nostrums, rostrums, residuums, vacuums. The Grammar of English Grammars The adoption of any or all of the legislative nostrums which were severally suggested, presupposed a willingness on the part of the South to carry them out and be governed thereby. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 Marseilles was the metropolis of the Mediterranean, the terminal for all the navigators of the mare nostrum. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel He was a notorious quack doctor, author of the Guide to Health and the purveyor of a nostrum called Balm of Gilead. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Each one has his own nostrum to propound, and in the Babel of voices nothing is done. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) He put in practice all the usually recommended nostrums for keeping away unpleasant thoughts:—all would not do. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 Now speak," he added, as the porter crept tremblingly forth, "and let us hear what nostrums you have swallowed. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire These signs of interest shown by the great traveler in the little mare nostrum, and especially in the details of its western bowl which he wished to know most minutely, pleased Ferragut greatly. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel She even wrote to her mother for the receipts of some of her grandfather's forgotten nostrums, and modified her daily life, and her hours of sleeping, eating and exercise, in accordance with each new experiment. The Custom of the Country Only I owe you little thanks for sweeping away any one of my lingering sympathies with Mr. Windrush, if all you can offer me instead is the confounded old nostrum of religion over again.” Phaethon Was it not she who was said to lay hands upon the sick and raise them from their couches when the leeches had spent their last nostrums? The White Company Every nostrum sold by the quacks in the streets tempted him; and a few days before, he had expended his last crown in the purchase of a bottle of plague-water. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire He could call it "mare nostrum" just as the Romans and their former rulers had done. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel One was warned against the chemist or druggist who pushed "much-advertised nostrums" on one's attention. Tono Bungay These boards were alternately embellished with colored drawings illustrative of the manifold virtues of the nostrum vended. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 Thus the philosophic pretenders who told fortunes by the stars cured all diseases by one nostrum, and preserved from evil by charms and amulets, ran with the current of popular belief. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 So widespread is this evil that you can scarce pick up a paper without finding some abortion nostrum advertised. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Without this Atlantic current the mare nostrum, which lost through atmospheric evaporation much more water than the rains and rivers could bring to it, would become dry in a few centuries. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel It was quarried at random, in the most ignorant way; some of it proved little better than chalk; and though all sorts of nostrums have been tried, nothing will cure the radical defect. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography The "Eau de luce" and other nostrums sold for this purpose have ammonia for their main ingredient. The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé One nostrum was called the Indian remedy, and its price was but fifteen cents; the whispered directions could be heard as customers passed the windows. The Country of the Pointed Firs Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt. Dracula The divinities of mare nostrum always inspired a most loving devotion in the doctor. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Their creeds were their schemes, their religions their nostrums, their philosophies their devices, by which they half-believed they would outwit the Noseless One and the Night. John Barleycorn Hugo: It hisses and glows like liquid flame; Say, what quack nostrum is this thou'st brewed? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Inside, the customary shelves of labelled jars, glass cases holding cigars, nostrums and toilet knick-knacks, and in one corner an ancient revolving bookcase deposited long ago by the Tabard Inn Library. The Haunted Bookshop Democracy, as it is called, is to-day the great panacea,--the political nostrum; as such it is confidently advocated by statesmen and professors and even by the presidents of our institutions of the advanced education. "'Tis Sixty Years Since" Address of Charles Francis Adams; Founders' Day, January 16, 1913 All their warlike or pacific movements were with intent to descend from the coasts of the glacial seas to the beaches of the warm mare nostrum. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Six miles of it without a break is the set allowance; and it beats vinegar, pickles, tea smoked in a tobacco-pipe, or any other nostrum, as an effectual generator of sobriety. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places The nostrums which he persuaded her to take, and the immoderate use of opium to which she accustomed herself, would have ruined her constitution, had it not been uncommonly strong. Tales and Novels — Volume 03 I know what those good motherly creatures are when they get an excuse for dosing some unhappy victim with their quack nostrums. Charlotte's Inheritance Under the title of Officiers de Sant�, they impose on the credulity of the public, in the most dangerous manner, by the distribution of nostrums for every disorder. Paris as It Was and as It Is He adored the mare nostrum as much as Doctor Ferragut, but his enthusiasm was not concerned with the Phoenician and Egyptian ships whose keels had first plowed these waves. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel They know in many cases that their nostrums will inflict positive injury upon their victims; but they are careless of the harm they do. The Secrets of the Great City The Prince Primate had faith in Cagliostro and his nostrums, and when an individual has recourse to astrologers and fortune-tellers, we are quite in a position to gauge his mental condition. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Even such drugs as are prescribed by physicians have harmful effects, and nostrums recommended by druggists are often worse still. Woman and the New Race The reform of the Upper House was now not a Liberal but a Conservative nostrum…. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Don Quixote's balsam, and the vomiting and consequent relief; an excellent hit at 'panacea nostrums', which cure the patient by his being himself cured of the medicine by revolting nature. Literary Remains, Volume 1 Absurd as was the assertion, he sold large quantities of his nostrum, and grew rich on the proceeds. The Secrets of the Great City The nostrum which they manufactured to govern us withal, and which at first had to be administered to us willy-nilly, has now become like that notorious patent medicine for which the children cry. The Subterranean Brotherhood Political nostrums and social panaceas are but incidentally and superficially useful. Woman and the New Race The Portuguese of his trade, especially in remoter districts, are little more than dealers in talismans and nostrums. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Unlike too the potions in fashion at present, This Wellington nostrum, restoring by stealth, So purges the memory of all that's unpleasant, That patients forget themselves into rude health. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes His malady defied her skill, and increased in spite of all the nostrums which the good widow kept in her closet and administered so freely to her people. The Virginians But the nation, made up of such as you, continues its prison nostrum, which slays a million for bichlorid of mercury's one. The Subterranean Brotherhood Do not speak it as if it were some new nostrum for curing the ills of humanity, which might answer or might not. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Of course, I don't presume to assert that your faith is a quack nostrum; only real Art and Religion won't run in double harness for you or anybody. Lying Prophets And the eternal snappers-up of popularity, the great writers, the sham thinkers at bay, exploited this imperious and agonized desire, by beating the drums and shouting the clap-trap of their nostrum. Jean-Christophe Journey's End You had not weakened yourself by swallowing every nostrum advertised, or wearing yourself out by vain terrors. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire Jail is the conventional and time-honored nostrum, which is administered with a glow of moral self-esteem, and no more thought about it. The Subterranean Brotherhood The world was not in need of any nostrum for curing sin, nor of any new scheme of the visionary for teaching men how to find peace and happiness. Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World Mediocrity and ignorance may starve, but talent and any new nostrum to strangle reason and keep the rot from the fabric will always open their coffers. Lying Prophets Then there was another difference in the mode of preparation, Aunt Keziah's nostrum being a concoction, whereas the old manuscript gave a process of distillation. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life The quacks no longer drove a flourishing trade in their pretended nostrums; these were now utterly discredited, for nothing seemed of the slightest avail. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire Time would fail even to mention the innumerable reform nostrums offered for the cure of the nation by smaller bodies of reformers. Equality If the Colonel should hear of this," said Dr. Dolliver, "he might fancy it his nostrum of long life, and insist on having the bottle for his own use. The Dolliver Romance It never did any good, and she was always changing the nostrum, but she never changed the idea. We Can't Have Everything What should a vendor of nostrums have to do with such affairs? At Agincourt Avoid the various advertised nostrums, and rely rather on the friendly advice of some fancier or your veterinary surgeon. Dogs and All about Them These very simple remedies, if popular, would soon send the concocters of nostrums for the teeth into the Gazette. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 355, February 7, 1829 I will taste again, because of this weak, agued, miserable state of mine; though it is a shame in me, a man of decent skill in my way, to believe in a quack's nostrum. The Dolliver Romance For his theories and nostrums they are oracular enough, but I either comprehend 'em not, or there is miching malice and mischief in 'em. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 The 'nostrum' of the mountebank will he preferred to the prescription of the regular practitioner. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. Everybody at that period of agitation and reform was giving lectures, and everybody went to hear them; and Carlyle ridiculed them all alike as pedlers of nostrums to heal diseases which were incurable. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Many of them lead a wandering life, and derive a precarious subsistence from the sale of charms and medical nostrums. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 They dealt in 'over thirty different nostrums,' and published books of every nature. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) Many of the older books are full of absurd nostrums. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 As to the translations, let me do two or three hundred lines, and then do you try the nostrums upon Stuart in any way you please. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb The root of the male fern, a nostrum for the cure of the tape worm, was secretly retailed by Madame Noufleur. Thaumaturgia Grandfather Hildreth kept himself alive with nostrums until he was seventy, but he was an invalid all his life. A Beautiful Possibility Indeed, these horses seem to their owners not to be worth the price of a nostrum. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The indiscriminate use of patent nostrums and sovereign remedies of whose constituents we know nothing, and by which powerful drugs are imbibed at haphazard, can not be too greatly deprecated. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics For his theories and nostrums, they are oracular enough, but I either comprehend 'em not, or there is "miching malice" and mischief in 'em, but, for the most part, ringing with their own emptiness. The Best Letters of Charles Lamb We shall conclude these observations with a few remarks on what are termed patent medicines, nostrums, or quack medicines, and their boasted pretensions in general. Thaumaturgia Containing infallible nostrums for procuring universal disesteem and hatred. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling True believers in economics were bound to point out that the nostrum of the Socialists, though intended to do good, would do infinite harm if applied to the community. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography What do you think concerning the common use of patent nostrums? Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics T. W. Conway, from the lowest obscurity, became worth millions from the sale of his nostrums, and rode in triumph through the streets of Boston in his coach and six. Great Fortunes from Railroads From universal remedies or panaceas, to nostrums and specifics, such, for instance, as pretend to cure the same disease in every patient, is easy and natural. Thaumaturgia |
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