Well the MRNA covid-19 vaccine is already available through a number of different a number of different venues, so that's not going to change, countries have the choice of what they would like to pick from our 23 patented medicines.

新冠肺炎疫苗已经在许多不同地点提供，所以这一点不会改变，各国可以从我们23种专利药物中选择他们想要药物。

At intervals, however, the post-master would hand him an envelope addressed to Mrs. Zenobia—or Mrs. Zeena—Frome, and usually bearing conspicuously in the upper left-hand corner the address of some manufacturer of patent medicine and the name of his specific.

然而，每隔一段时间，邮政局长就会递给他一个信封，上面写着芝诺比亚夫人——或泽娜夫人——弗洛姆，信封左上角通常醒目地写着一些成药制造商地址和公司称他具体。

Emulating the magnificent efforts of Anthony Comstock, after whom his grandson was named, he levelled a varied assortment of uppercuts and body-blows at liquor, literature, vice, art, patent medicines, and Sunday theatres.

效仿安东尼·康斯托克（他孙子以他命）伟努力，他在、学、恶习、艺术、成药和周日剧院中使用了各种各样勾拳和身体打击。

Oh, I mean, and when you hear what's in this, this was his take on a mid-19th century French patent medicine called Vim Mariani, which mixed Bordeaux wine and coca leaves.

哦， 我意思是， 当你听说这里面成分时，这其实是他对19世纪中叶一种为Vim Mariani法国专利药诠释，这种药混合了波尔多葡萄和古柯叶。

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 最初是一制盐商；比他竞争对手更精明是，他将用水制成油作为专利药物出售。

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，她这一年都烂透了，可你知道，她讨厌医生， 各种成药都在吃。

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药物，可以解决医疗问题， 但通常不会。

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease there in dealt with in its most virulent form.

说起来非常奇怪，我每看一个非处方药广告都必然会得出这样结论：我得了广告上说这个病，不仅如此，而且症状很严重。

Now let's turn to our next topic, which is " patent medicines."

现在让我们转向下一个话题， 即“专利药品” 。

And meanwhile, he was inventing patent medicines at his drugstore.

与此同时，他在药店里发明了专利药。

Many of the patent medicines had similar ingredients.

许多专利药品成分相似。

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

一些早期汽水，包括可口可乐， 最初也被当作一种专利药品销售。

It is true that some of the plants used by Native Americans had medicinal properties; that is, they actually did change something in your body, although often not the things that the people selling patent medicine said they did.

确实， 一些美洲原住民使用植物具有药用性质；也就是说， 它们确实会对你身体产生某种影响，尽管通常并不是那些销售专利药品人所说那种效果。

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

许多专利药品声称它们使用了生长在沼泽中植物根。

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

当你在美国使用“专利药品” 这个词时，多数人会立刻想到19世纪或20世纪早期。

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

这里“claim” 是指关于某物功能陈述， 在这种情况下，是指专利药品对身体功效陈述。

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

然而， 多数专利药品都含有一些异国成分，或者它们声称含有异国成分。

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

卖专利药品人声称他们药能治愈各种疾病。

The interesting thing about patent medicines is not so much that they were trying to help people with illnesses (often, not very effectively) – the interesting thing is that the development of modern advertising began with patent medicines.

关于专利药品有趣地方并不在于它们试图帮助生病人（通常效果并不明显）——有趣是，现代广告发展正是从专利药品开始。

Other patent medicines claim to be using Native American, or American Indian, medicines since many people believed that the Native Americans had some sort of special knowledge about medicine.

其他专利药品声称使用了美洲原住民或美国印第安人药物，因为许多人认为美洲原住民在医药方面拥有一些特殊知识。