227 results filtered with: Quacks and quackery
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Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.
Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?Date: 1675
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An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i
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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
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An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
Reference: 20922i
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W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 22nd 1889Reference: 13793i
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.Date: 1743Reference: 20496i
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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: 544394i
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A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
Reference: 20542i
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A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.
Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960.Date: 1909Reference: 15370i
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A greedy medical practitioner demanding a leg of bacon for payment from a poor family. Mezzotint.
Reference: 20807i
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An itinerant medicine vendor reciting from a piece of paper trying and sell his wares to a small audience. Facsimile reproduction of an etching by J. Both after A. Both.
Both, Andries Dirksz, approximately 1608-1641?Reference: 20473i
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An itinerant medicine salesman performing his sales pitch on stage to a small group of people. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20600i
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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
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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: 1736Reference: 544396i
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Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1807Reference: 11733i
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Primitive psycho-therapy and quakery.
Lawrence, Robert Means, 1847-1953.Date: 1910- 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
'The Widow Welch's Pills'
Various members of the Kearsley familyDate: 1787-1966Reference: SA/WWP
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Doctor Bossy, a medicine vendor, selling his wares to a crowd of sick and lame people at Covent Garden, London. Pencil drawing after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Reference: 20574i
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A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Pears, Charles, 1873-1958.Date: 1912Reference: 15398i
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Engraving after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16510i
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Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear.
Spear, Edmund Doe.Date: 1872
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A quack and a clown on stage presenting their wares to a hostile audience; referring to various politicians reactions to the replacement of the fixed duty on corn. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1841.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 15 May 1841Reference: 13436iPart of: HB Sketches
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i
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A figure comprised of medicine bottles and tablets, representing the patent medicine business, dances behind a pensive Lloyd George; representing attitudes to the introduction of the National Insurance Act of 1911. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1912.
Partridge, Bernard, 1861-1945.Date: 1912Reference: 15395i