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。

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

例如，专利药品并不是指被申请了专利的药品，所以这个词有点名不副实。

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

现在，专利药品做出了一些我们现在会描述为“夸张到离谱” 的声明。

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

卖专利药品的人声称他们的药能。

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

专利药品声称能做很多事情。

Many of the patent medicines had similar ingredients.

许多专利药品的成分相似。

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的植物的根。

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.

专利药是作为疗药物销售和宣传的药物，可以解决医疗问题， 但通常不会。

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

然而， 大多数专利药品都含有一些异国成分，或者它们声称含有异国成分。

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

其他专利药品试图利用技术进步带来的好处。

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， 成药都在吃。

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，大多数人会立刻想到19世纪或20世纪早期。

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

我把专利药品定义为没有效果的药物，但这可能不完全正确。

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

这里的“claim” 是指关于某物功能的陈述， 在这情况下，是指专利药品对身体的功效的陈述。

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

一些专利药品可能确实帮助了一些生的人。

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。

Several of the patent medicines contained opiates.

一些专利药品含有鸦片制剂。

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.

当我们谈论实物时， 我们会使用“专利” 这个词。 然而，“专利药品” 并不是真正意义上的专利药品，所以这可以被称为一个误称。

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，一些基本的广告和营销原则和理念来自于从事专利药品行业的人们。