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Joaks upon joaks; or, No joak like a true joak. Being the diverting humours of Mr. John Ogle, a life-guard-man. The merry pranks of Lord Mohum, and the earls of Warwick and Pembroke. With Rochester's dream, his maiden's disappointment, and his mountebank's speech. Together with the diverting fancies and frolicks of Cahrles [sic] II. and his three concubines.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The English mountebank: or, a physical dispensatory, wherein is prescribed, many strange and excellent receits of Mr Marriot : the great eater of Grays-Inn: with the manner how he makes his cordial broaths, pills, purgatious [sic], julips, and vomits, to keep his body in temper, and free from surfeits. With sundry directions, 1 How to make his cordial broath. 2 His pills to appease hunger. 3 His strange purgation; never before practised by any doctor in England. 4 The manner and reason, why he swallows bullets & stones. 5 How he orders his bak'd meat, or rare dish on Sundays. 6 How to make his new fashion fish-broath. 7 How to make his sallet, for cooling of the bloud. 8 How to make his new dish, called a frigazee: the operation whereof, expells all sadness and melancholy.
Marriott, John, -1653Date: 1652- Books
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The poetical vvorks of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley Bar. and his speeches in Parliamemt [sic], with large additions ... Published from the original MS. by Capt. Ayloffe. To which is perfixed [sic], The Earl of Rochester's mountebank speech, ... With a new miscelany [sic] of poems by several ... hands. As also a compleat collection of all the remarkable speeches in both Houses of Parliament: ...
Sedley, Charles, Sir, 1639?-1701.Date: 1710- Books
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Newes out of the west, or, The character of a mountebank : being a discourse betweene Hodge Leather-Pelch, and Tym Hob-Nayle, Sir Harry-Hart-Hole their land-lord, and his friend Sir Clement Councell : also of their travels from Taunton to London, their arrivall at their physitians pallace, the description of it, his sick and brain-sick followers, person and family, with a full relation of the medicines hee commonly administers, their operation and danger represented by them : also a relation of their abuses now suffered and fomented by authority, with a remedy set down, to the encouragement of physitians, illustration of the honour'd art and generall good of the Re-publicque / by a well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of them.
Well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of themDate: 1647- Books
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Against VVilliam Li-Lie (alias) Lillie : that most audacious atheisticall rayling Rabsheca, that impious witch or wizzard, and most abhominable sorcerer, or star-gazer of London, and all his odious almanacks, and others. / Written by John Viccars schoolemaster of Christ Hospitall, few dayes before his death, which he had prepared for the Black Munday, turned white since his dissolution.
Vicars, John, 1579 or 1580-1652Date: Printed in the yeare when the astrologers and mountebanks lost their judgments, 29 March, 1652- 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]- Books
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750 : literary mountebanks and performing quacks / M.A. Katritzky.
Katritzky, M. A.Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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An appeal unto Caesar : being an inquiry whether homoeopathic physicians are quacks, charlatans, imposters, mountebanks, etc. / by Geo. E. Shipman.
Shipman, Geo. E. (George Elias), 1820-1893.Date: 1865- Pictures
Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 20659i- Books
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A compleat treatise of urines, Shewing the right Method of Urinal Prognostication, Far different From the Common Practice of Quacks and Mountebanks. By T. H. Pharmacop. Rustican.
Hicks, T.Date: 1703- Books
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Apologia chyrurgica. A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, etc. ... / [Daniel Turner].
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741Date: 1695- Books
[Sōotomía (romanized form)], or, observations on the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes / By Richard Whitlock.
Whitlock, Richard, 1616?Date: 1654- Books
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[SōotomÍa (romanized form)], or, observations on the present manners of the English: briefly anatomizing the living by the dead. With an usefull detection of the mountebanks of both sexes / By Richard Whitlock.
Whitlock, Richard, 1615 or 1616-Date: 1654- Books
Pharmacologia anti-empirica; or, a rational discourse of remedies both chymical and galenical ... Together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the cortex ... and ... impostures of ... mountebanks / [Walter Harris].
Harris, Walter, 1647-1732Date: 1683- Books
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Apologia chyrurgica : A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, with other ignorant undertakers. Wherein their fraudulent practices are plainly detected by several remarkable observations, their fair promises prov'd fictions, their administrations pernicious, their confident pretences injurious and destructive to the welfare of the people. By Daniel Turner, practitioner in chyrurgery. Imprimatur. Datum in comitiis censoriis ex ædibus collegii nostri, Jan. 11. 1694. John Lawson, president. Samuel Collins, Richard Torless, Edward Tyson, Martin Lister, censores.
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741Date: 1695- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
Reference: 20647i- Archives and manuscripts
The Mock Doctor's Speech
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.5326- Pictures
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Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.
Date: [1815?]Reference: 728564iPart of: Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.- Books
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Mesmeric experiments at public lectures are little to be depended upon. Strikingly evidenced by a recent example at Maidstone. / By Samuel Spurrell.
Spurrell, Samuel, active 1843.Date: [1843]- Books
The famous pathologist; or, The noble montebank / by Thomas Alcock and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Now for the first time printed from the original ms. and edited with an introduction and commentary by Vivian de Sola Pinto.
Alcock, Thomas, active 1687.Date: 1961- Pictures
Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
S., B., active 1750.Date: 1750Reference: 20586i- Books
The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity / George Rousseau.
Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian)Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
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Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical : wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris.
Harris, Walter, 1647-1732Date: 1683- Books
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The touch-Stone: or, historical, critical, political, philosophical, and theological essays on the reigning diversions of the town. Designed for the Improvement of all Authors, Spectators, and Actors of Operas, Plays, and Masquerades. In which every Thing antique, or modern, relating to Musick, Poetry, Dancing, Pantomimes, Chorusses, Cat-Calls, Audiences, Judges, Criticks, Balls, Ridottos, Assemblies, New Oratory, Circus, Bear-Garden, Gladiators, Prize-Fighters, Italian Strollers, Mountebank Stages, Cock-Pits, Puppet-Shews, Fairs, and Publick Auctions, Is occasionally handled. With a preface, giving an account of the author and the work.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: MDCCXXIX. [1729]