nostra

Noun

 * 1) * 1847–1848: [A UTHOR UNKNOWN ], Annalist: A Record of Practical Medicine in the City of New York, p193?
 * …beg our clerical friends to remember that quack medicines are of two kinds,… …with his poisonous nostra in the form of doctrines, upon those of whose…
 * 1) * 1955: King Edward Memorial Hospital (Bombay, India), Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, p71
 * …immunotherapy, Isselsism, thermotherapy, and all other nostra — are used faut de mieux, when the three bulwarks of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have failed, or are prima facie useless.
 * 1) * 1955: King Edward Memorial Hospital (Bombay, India), Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, p71
 * …immunotherapy, Isselsism, thermotherapy, and all other nostra — are used faut de mieux, when the three bulwarks of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have failed, or are prima facie useless.
 * …immunotherapy, Isselsism, thermotherapy, and all other nostra — are used faut de mieux, when the three bulwarks of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have failed, or are prima facie useless.

Etymology
, feminine of.