The butler stood ready with some curiously delicate cordial; the old housekeeper was provided with half-a-dozen Nostrums, prepared by her own hands, according to the family receipt-book; while her niece, the melting Phoebe, having no other way of assisting, stood wringing her hands, and weeping aloud.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
The facts about hundreds of Nostrums can be absolutely determined.
"Civics and Health"
William H. Allen
There were then no troublesome people with philanthropic or political or religious Nostrums, proposing to turn the world upside down and introduce an impromptu millennium.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen