concept
Rafanistrol
also: Рафанистроль
A fictitious cure-all ointment of Alexander Ivanovich's invention -- a patent-medicine parody, its Latinate name mimicking real 19th-century quack remedies advertised in the Russian press.
Reading notes
- Biographies of Notable Contemporaries §9 Rafanistrol
A fictitious cure-all ointment invented for the sketch, its Latinate-sounding name mimicking the pseudo-scientific brand names of real patent medicines.