Show how uw it started by jean J NI V ewton why it Is a a nostrum mithu infamous infamy u s no strums of mal apra practitioners tit ioner s used to be a fa phrase of a certain medical writer that the word nostrum s should hould tune have this sense of a quack or disreputable proprietary remedy Is intel te resting when it Is considered that tile the word itself in its ita original latin simply means our own or my own the word came to be applied oreg anally to the products of those purl pill lin linnette medicine men who ft ho sold cure alls alle allegedly godly of their very own con the secret ingredients of which presumably were extremely val bable and known only to themselves that these compound ings were gen brally worthless woith less if not harmful goes of course without saying but it Is in this way that the term acquired its invidious significance C bell syndicate service |