Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”

as drug treatment is filed in the same bottom drawer of forgotten liberal nostrums as youth employment or gang counseling

The old guard at the army’s top were deeply bitter at the direction of the war and the erosion of old nostrums.

The very events and vicissitudes of the struggle against capital, the defeats even more than the victories, could not help bringing home to men’s minds the insufficiency of their various favourite nostrums, and preparing the way for a more complete insight into the true conditions of working-class emancipation