1847–1848: [AUTHOR UNKNOWN],Annalist: A Record of Practical Medicine in the City of New York, p193?
…beg our clerical friends to remember that quack medicines are of two kinds,… …with his poisonousnostra in the form of doctrines, upon those of whose…
1917, Torald Hermann Sollmann,A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology, page71:
On the other hand, alchemists had arisen with their pertinacious search for the philosopher’s stone, which was to convert all metals into gold, and cure all diseases. In this search they gave theirnostra extensive trial on sick and well.
1928, Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society,The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, page121:
Much less shall we enter into a detail of the manynostra and patent medicines that have been, and still are, trumpeted round as sure and never-failing…
1955: King Edward Memorial Hospital (Bombay, India),Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, p71
…immunotherapy, Isselsism, thermotherapy, and all othernostra — are usedfaut de mieux, when the three bulwarks of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have failed, or areprima facie useless.
