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QUACKERY
What is most fascinating about this definition is that a hundred years ago the medical doctors whose medicine I practice were at war with the quacksalvers.- www.maloneymedical.com/id67.html
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Although most famous from the Old West of the United States, medicine pitchmen have been working the public eye since medieval days -- when they were known as "quacksalvers", a term ...- www.snakeoilproductions.com/faq.html
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Extensions: quackED quackERY quackIER quackING quackISH quackISM quackIEST quackISMS quackERIES quackSALVER quackSALVERS. Sub-anagrams: auk ka qua. Confused? See the glossary- www.scrabble-assoc.com/cgi-bin/wotd.pl?date=20061001&dict=ospd4
Quackery, Fraud, and "Alternative" Methods: Important Definitions
Wandering peddlers known as "quacksalvers" sold mercury ointment. They would claim that their agents would cure all diseases. The term was later shortened to "quacks," who became a symbol of ...- www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/quackdef2.html
QUACKERY
In the Middle Ages the word quack itself meant "shouting. The quacksalvers sold their wares on the market shouting in a loud voice- skeptically.org/quackery
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Mercury, also known as quicksilver, was sold by travelling peddlers, known as quacksalvers, who claimed their preparations would cure all illness. The term was ultimately shortened to 'quack'- www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A3826163?s_id=6
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Quacksalvers of the worst category explained us falsely, that the dangerous and incurable Eclipso litis was premulating here. A n aperture mask like a camera Obscura let ...- www.tboeckel.de/EFSF/efsf_ps/sofi_06/sofi_06_e.htm
François Rabelais
He went to see the jugglers, tumblers, mountebanks, and quacksalvers, and considered their cunning, their shifts, their somersaults and smooth tongue, especially of those of Chauny in Picardy, who are ...- www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rabela.htm
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He went to see the jugglers, tumblers, mountebanks, and quacksalvers, and considered their cunning, their shifts, their somersaults and smooth tongue, especially of those of Chauny in ...- www.nous.org.uk/skepticlinks.html
Physician, Patient, Physic.
... to be doubted, that if we seek a physician as we ought, we may be eased of our infirmities, such a one I mean as is sufficient, and worthily so called; for there be many mountebanks, quacksalvers ...- www.exclassics.com/anatomy/anat87.htm
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