| Description | A Nostrum was an over -the-counter medicine prepared by the pharmacist, to their own recipe.. Other terms are proprietary or quack remedy. The effectiveness is unproven and ingredients are usually secret.
When Boots acquired a pharmaicst's shop, they would purchase the nostrums as well. In some instances the nostrums area annotated to show where Boots has continued to sell them or has discontinued them.
These are arranged alphabetically. |