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

卖成药的人说能治百病。

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

现在，专利药物确实做出了一些我们现在所说的“离谱的声明” 。

Many of the patent medicines had similar ingredients.

许多专利药物的成分相似。

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

专利药品对它们应该能够做什么做出了很多声明。

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

例如，专利药并不是获得专利的药物，所以它有点用词不当。

In the American market for patented medicines, the drug's inventor has a great deal of pricing power, which has driven prices higher.

在美国的专利药市场，药物的发明者拥有很大的定价权，从而推高了价格。

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

其他专利药物试图从技术进步中获益。

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“声明” 是关于某事会做什么的声明， 在这种情况下，专利药物会对你的身体做什么。

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

我将专利药定义为无效的药物，但这可能不完全正确。

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

一些专利药物可能确实帮助了因某些事情而生病的人。