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Patent Medicine

Patent Medicine

Patent medicine — the dubious cure-all — often touches desperate measures in advancing your fortune that nonetheless succeed, to the envious's dismay. The dream may ask where you're reaching for a doubtful remedy to your circumstances, and whether the bold, unorthodox fix might actually lift you from obscurity past all expectation.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for patent medicine, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune, but you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious.

To see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity to positions above your highest imaginings.