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What is a nostrum?

What is a nostrum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects.
  2. An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
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His paternal grandfather made a fortune in the States with a nostrum called Brandreth's Pills, which still exist.
There have always been difficulties and problems for the states bordering the mare nostrum, as it was called 2000 years ago.
Join your hands but do not bow at the words Per Christum, Dominum nostrum.
This French business, on the other hand, is a nostrum and a mere excrescence.
Still there was no use to attempt calming him with the assurance that his nostrum could not be had.
This is the death of the project concerning cooperation between the countries bordering the mare nostrum, led by France.

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