proprietary medicine

As a boy of 13, Fletcher went to work for a proprietary medicine company.

Since 2002 the Society has concentrated on developing the collection of historical and contemporary proprietary medicines.

He engaged in the manufacture of proprietary medicines and later in banking.

We take readily to proprietary medicines.

By 1830, British parliamentary records list over 1,300 different "proprietary medicines," the majority of which were "quack" cures by modern standards.

Out of 275 proprietary medicines of the Dawakhana, some common polypharmaceutic preparations and products were:

Evans Medical Limited already has an established reputation in the UK pharmaceutical market in biological products, generics and proprietary medicines.

Gentian root has a long history of use as a herbal bitter in the treatment of digestive disorders and is an ingredient of many proprietary medicines.

In the later case, the NBCA went on to sponsor the development and licensing of proprietary medicines for distribution to birth control clinics.

For example, those of the proprietary medicines industry, represented by the Pharmaceutical Association of Great Britain (PAGB).

Then there are weather balloons, proprietary medicines . . . This O'Neill was also a pharmacist, for Christ's sake!"

He was also chairman of the World Federation of Proprietary Medicine Manufacturers, now called the World Self-Medication Industry.

Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers Association (PPMDA)

Warburg's Tincture was sold as a secret, proprietary medicine for over forty years, and was marketed and manufactured by Carl Warburg for many decades.

It has been indicated by the DH that a prescriber will be able to tick a "do not substitute" box to prevent a proprietary medicine being replaced with a generic alternative.

About this time proprietary medicines became popular and were advertised in the Monmouthshire Beacon, amongst which was 'Hyam's Anti-Influenza Tonic Water'.

Drug Houses of Australia is now a leading generic pharmaceutics and Chinese proprietary medicine (CPM) manufacturer based in Jurong, Singapore.

The Centaur Company, founded in 1871, owned and marketed proprietary medicines, notably, the stimulant laxative Fletcher's Castoria and the ointment Centaur Liniment.

Propolis, a hive product also known for its sweet fruity taste, is used as a remedy for sore throats, and there are many modern proprietary medicines which use honey as an ingredient.

When Mrs Brandon is interviewed, she reveals that both she and Mrs Davis worked for the organisation, which surveyed targeted people about what foods, cosmetics, and proprietary medicines they used.

Between them, these laws began to remove the more outrageously dangerous contents from patent and proprietary medicines, and to force quack medicine proprietors to stop making some of their more blatantly dishonest claims.

In Hong Kong, where phenformin is banned, cases of phenformin-induced lactic acidosis have occurred after taking Chinese proprietary medicines, claiming to be herbal, which were adulterated with phenformin.

Charles H. Fletcher went to work for a proprietary medicine company at 13, and after buying the Castoria formula from a physician, started his own company at 80 Varick Street in 1872, when he was 34.