patent+medicine

  • 51leuco patent blue — A sulfonated triphenylmethane dye reduced and decolorized with zinc and acetic acid to produce a stable solution; used to demonstrate hemoglobin peroxidase. SYN: patent blue V …

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  • 52medicine show — a traveling troupe, esp. in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale. [1935 40, Amer.] * * * …

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  • 53medicine show — med′icine show n. a traveling troupe, esp. in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines offered for sale • Etymology: 1935–40, amer …

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  • 54Sequah Medicine Company — began in 1887 as the Sequah Medicine Co Ltd selling patent medicines such as prairie flower and Indian oil using traveling salesman, known as Sequahs. The traveling salesmen were quack doctors. One such example is Peter Alexander Gordon, who went …

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  • 55Medical patent — A medical patent may refer to a biological patent (see also gene patent) a chemical or pharmaceutical patent a patent on a medical device See also Generic drug Patent medicine This disambiguation page lists artic …

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  • 56Traditional Chinese medicine — Alternative medical systems Traditional Chinese medicin …

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  • 57Crude medicine — (simplified Chinese: 药材; traditional Chinese: 藥材; pinyin: yàocái), (also known as crude drug in the Chinese materia medica) are bulk drugs from the Chinese materia medica basic processing and treatment. Contents 1 Overview 2 History …

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  • 58Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Award …

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  • 59The Canon of Medicine — (Arabic: القانون في الطب Al Qanun fi al Tibb The Law of Medicine ; Persian: قانون Qanun Law ; Latin: Canon Medicinae Canon of Medicine ; Chinese: Hui Hui Yao Fang Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality ) is a 14 volume Arabic medical encyclopedia… …

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  • 60Public participation in patent examination — The involvement of the public in patent examination has been proposed and is currently used in some forms to help identifying relevant prior art and, more generally, to help assessing whether patent applications and inventions meet the… …

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