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A Dutch quack doctor out of his depth on a spirited horse; implying his medical limitations. Engraving.
Reference: 10934i- Pictures
A Dutch quack doctor promoting his wares before an audience of townspeople. Etching.
Reference: 10979i- Ephemera
Doctor Smethurst very lucky again.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Pictures
An English fool acting as spokesman for a Dutch quack doctor; an ornate border composed of the paraphernalia of quackery surrounds his proclamation. Engraving by G. Bickham.
Reference: 10935i- Books
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A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long.
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.Date: 1834- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006895: A charlatan doctor, selling medicine to a crowd
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0006836: Charlatan doctor on horse-back
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/9Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0006852: A charlatan doctor
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/25Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0006940: A charlatan doctor in the wood of Haarlem
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006886: A charlatan doctor
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/55Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0006934: Scene depciting a charlatan doctor in a village
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006922: A charlatan doctor
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/89Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0007641: A crowd watching charlatan doctors on a stage outside an inn
Date: 6 September 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/65/80Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0010402: Charlatans at work, from Clowes: A briefe and necessarie treatise, 1585
Date: 09 January 1948Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/91/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006679: Portrait of William Atkins (fl. 17th century)
Date: 2 April 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/56/53Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil, quackery and allied matters affecting the public health : reprinted, with or without modifications, from the Journal of the American Medical Association / prepared, compiled or edited by Arthur J. Cramp.
American Medical Association.Date: 1921- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002904:The Quack
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/61Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. GDate: [1700]- Books
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Quackery unmasked, or, A consideration of the most prominent empirical schemes of the present time : with an enumeration of some of the causes which contribute to their support / by Dan King.
King, Dan, 1791-1864.Date: [1858?]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007104: Manuscript illustration of charlatan doctor with assistant
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/92Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- 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- Archives and manuscripts
M0006835: A charlatan dentist
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/8Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The great American fraud : Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks, in two series, reprinted from Collier's weekly / by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958.Date: [1906]- Archives and manuscripts
James Bower Harrison Popular Medical Errors, addenda
Harrison, James Bower, FRCS (d. 1890)Date: c. 1852-1881Reference: MS.8482- Archives and manuscripts
M0013726: A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison
Date: October 1954