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patent medicine

product that is promoted and sold as a medical cure, which may not have any medical value
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patent medicine

Summary

patent medicine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (676 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • patent medicine is a type of traditional medicine[2].
  • patent medicine is a type of quackery[3].
  • patent medicine's Commons category is recorded as Patent medicine[4].
  • patent medicine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Patent medicines[5].
  • patent medicine's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6].
  • patent medicine's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[7].
  • patent medicine's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • patent medicine's different from is recorded as chemical patent[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include traditional medicine[2] and quackery[3].

Why It Matters

patent medicine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (676 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → traditional medicine, quackery
    Topic's main category → Category:Patent medicines
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → chemical patent
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007529542105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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