patent medicine
pat·ent medicine
noun \ˈpat-ənt-, British usually ˈpāt-\Definition of PATENT MEDICINE
: a packaged nonprescription drug which is protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed; also : any drug that is a proprietary
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