People who sold patent medicines said that they would cure all sorts of things.

卖成药的人说治百病。

Now, patent medicines made some really what we would now describe as " outrageous claims."

现在，专利药物确实做出了们现在所说的“离谱的声明” 。

Many of the patent medicines had similar ingredients.

许多专利药物的成分相似。

Patent medicines made lots of claims about what they were supposed to be able to do.

专利药品对它们应该够做什么做出了很多声明。

Patent medicine for example, is not medicine that's patented, so it's something of a misnomer.

例如，专利药并不是获得专利的药物，所以它有点用词不当。

In the American market for patented medicines, the drug's inventor has a great deal of pricing power, which has driven prices higher.

在美国的专利药市场，药物的明者拥有很大的定价权，从而推高了价格。

Other patent medicines tried to reap the benefits of technological advances.

其他专利药物试图从技术进步中获益。

A " claim" here is a statement about what something will do, in this case, what patent medicines will do for your body.

里的“声明” 是关于某事会做什么的声明， 在种情况下，专利药物会对你的身体做什么。

I defined patent medicines as medicines that didn't work, but that's probably not completely true.

将专利药定义为无效的药物，但不完全正确。

Some patent medicines probably did help people who were sick for some things.

专利药物确实帮助了因某事情而生病的人。

Most, however, of the patent medicines had some sort of exotic ingredient, or they said it had an exotic ingredient.

然而， 大多数专利药物都含有某种外来成分，或者他们说它含有外来成分。

Several of the patent medicines contained opiates.

专利药物含有鸦片制剂。

It appears that she has been rotten for the last year, but you know she hates doctors and she's been taking all sorts of patent medicines.

看样子，她年都烂透了，你知道，她讨厌医生， 各种成药都在吃。

Many of the patent medicine said that they used the roots of plants grown in swamps.

许多成药都说他们使用的是生长在沼泽中的植物的根。

In other words, some of the basic principles and ideas of advertising, of marketing, came from people working in the patent medicine industry, in the patent medicine business.

换句话说，广告和市场营销的基本原则和想法来自专利药品行业和专利药品业务的工作人员。

Samuel M. Kier was originally a salt manufacturer; more canny than his competitors, he sold the oil which came up with his water as a patent medicine.

Samuel M. Kier 最初是名制盐商；比他的竞争对手更精明的是，他将用水制成的油作为专利药物出售。

When we're talking about physical things, then we use the word " patent." Patent medicine, however, isn't patented medicine, so it's something of what we would call a misnomer.

当们谈论物理事物时， 们会使用“专利” 个词。 但是，专利药物并不是专利药物，所以们称之为用词不当。

Patent medicines are medicines that are sold and advertised as being cures, as being something that will solve a medical problem, but typically do not.

专利药是作为治疗药物销售和宣传的药物，以解决医疗问题， 但通常不会。

When you use the term " patent medicine" in the United States, most people think immediately of the 19th century or the early 20th century.

当您在美国使用“专利药” 词时，大多数人会立即想到 19 世纪或 20 世纪初。

Some of the early kinds of soda, including Coca-Cola were also sold originally as being a kind of patent medicine.

早期的苏打水，包括口乐， 最初也作为种专利药出售。