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Abortion for sale! : the competition between quacks and doctors in Weimar Germany / Cornelie Usborne.
Usborne, Cornelie.Date: 1997- Pictures
A man composed of testimonials for quack-medicines takes some medicine from a bottle in the vain hope of curing his syphilis or gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1944.
Karsakov, Leonard, 1917-1993.Date: 1944Reference: 678378i- Pictures
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i- Books
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Mandragora ; or, the quacks: a poem. In two canto's.
Date: Printed in the Year 1717- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. G.Date: [1725?]- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. GDate: [1700]- Pictures
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A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.Date: [1841]Reference: 20717i- Books
The golden days of Doctor Quack / adapted by Leo Harris from a radio programme by Leo Knowles.
Knowles, LeoDate: 1975- Books
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A bold challenge to the whole colledge of physicians: or, a defence of those practitioners in physick commonly call'd quacks, namely Dr. M---tin, Dr. M---re, Dr. V---k---s, Dr. W---t--s, Dr. T---l--g, Dr. Th---n--lt, Dr. Anodyne Necklace. Cum multis alijs, both Doctors, and Doctoresses. Likewise a Vindication of many Eminent Piss-Prophets, Astrologers, Conjurers, both Male and Female, from the Aspersions cast upon them by a late Author.
Date: [1740?]- Books
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A catalogue of some cures of the gout, rheumatism, sciatica, plurisie, cholick, and pains in the head. By J. Wiggens, at the Golden-Bail in Sugar-Loaf-Court, Leadenhall-Street. Who hopes none will condemn him, 'till they have enquired of those Persons herein mentioned, or (if they have Occasion) 'till they have made Tryal of him, which is the true Test, and by which he is content to stand or fall, have Credit or Disgrace.
Wiggins, J., quack doctor.Date: [1718?]- Books
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A catalogue of some cures of the gout, rheumatism, sciatica, plurisie, cholick, and pains in the head. By J. Wiggins, at the Golden-Ball in Sugar-Loas-Court, Leadenhall-Street. Who hopes none will condemn him, 'till they have enquired of those Persons herein mentioned, or (if they have Occasion) 'till they have made Tryal of him, which is the true Test, and by which he is content to stand or fall, have Credit or Disgrace.
Wiggins, J., quack doctor.Date: [1726?]- Books
'Prenez des pilules, prenez des pilules' : the quack and his image in eighteenth century art / Uta Janssens-Knorsch.
Janssens-Knorsch, Uta.Date: 1984- Pictures
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A quack selling medicines. Oil painting.
Reference: 45031i- Books
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Professional morality in 1831, or the lawyer's defence of medical quackery : in which John St. John Long's discoveries are examined, and his claims to the confidence of the British public, are criticised / by a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and a master of surgery and arts.
Date: 1831- Books
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The modern quack; or, the physical impostor, detected. In three parts. I. Exposing their Qualifications and Remedies. II. Proving the Insufficiency of the Latter to Answer what is proposed by them. III. Unfolding their Nature and ill Consequences. With a supplement, displaying the present set of pretenders to clap-curing, giving Judgment upon Urine, &c. in which their Frauds and Abuses are laid open; Rules also to know, and Cautions against them. To which (for the farther Security of the Sick of any sort) a catalogue is annexed of all the members of the Royal College of Physicians, residing in and about the Town, with the Places of their several Abodes or Habitations. By a London physician.
London physician.Date: 1718- Books
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The quack triumphant: or, the N--r----ch cavalcade. A new ballad.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIII. [1733]- Books
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The Quack turn'd orator: or, L-s on the hob. ...
Date: 1748]- Books
The merry quack doctor; or, the fun box broke open / [Tom Killegrew].
Killegrew, Tom, Jnr., pseud.Date: 1778?]- Books
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Medicaster exenteratus, or the quack's pourtrait. A poem. By Tho. Boydell, Philomed.
Boydell, Tho.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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Vernon Galbray, or, The empiric : the history of a quack dentist.
Weiss, Felix.Date: 1875- Books
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs / By various hands.
Date: 1762- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Ephemera
Doctor Smethurst very lucky again.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Pictures
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A travelling medicine vendor on horseback making a speech to a crowd of people. Engraving by T. Slater, ca. 1713.
Date: [1713?]Reference: 575019i