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An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Date: 1798Reference: 20882i
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People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
Franklin, John, active 1800-1861.Reference: 6924i
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Il medico saltimbanco : vita e avventure di Buonafede Vitali, giramondo instancabile, chimico di talento, istrione di buona creanza / Giorgio Cosmacini.
Cosmacini, Giorgio.Date: 2008
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Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.
Boulton, Samuel.Date: 1656
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.
Date: 1767Reference: 20721i
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The justly far famed and highly celebrated Dr. von Isaac Slaukenbergius, high German, Hebrew-doctor ... takes this public method of announcing his arrival at the present period of the celebration of that renowned gala, the Guild at Preston.
Date: [between 1800 and 1838?]
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John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20918i
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On the philosophy of medicine : on quackery, &c., being the last of a course of lectures delivered in the School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne / by R. M. Glover.
Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859.Date: 1851
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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17152i
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The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis.
Davis, Robert J., 1963-Date: [2008], ©2008
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Engraving after W. Hogarth, 1736.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1736Reference: 544397i
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of an assistant who is extracting a tooth from a man from the audience. Process print.
Reference: 21011i
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Wilson after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16507i
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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.
Reference: 20529i
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Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 29 November 1789Reference: 10779i
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 10756i
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Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 April 1792Reference: 20579i
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An itinerant medicine vendor, draped with live snakes, sells his wares from a stage to an enthusiastic audience. Line engraving by D. Ghisi after G. Romano.
Romano, Giulio, 1499-1546.Reference: 20449i
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An itinerant medicine vendor in England selling his wares inside a country inn. Coloured etching by T. Illman.
Date: [1820?]Reference: 20932i
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A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16511i
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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
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Exposures of quackery : being a series of articles upon, and analysis of, various patent medicines / by the editor of "Health News."
Date: [1897?]
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Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 November 1808Reference: 11734i
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A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20671i
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A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: 1 January 1803Reference: 10980i