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The quacks academy; or The dunce's directory : A new art to cross the old proverb, and make a man fool and physician both at a time. Discovering the several methods whereby so many ignorant pretenders obtain repute and practice. With allowance.
Date: MDCLXXVIII. [1678]
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For the apology for so late a publication, see the next page. The analysis of a new quack-medicine, called An antidote, &c. By a member of one of the inferior corporations.
Member of one of the inferior corporations.Date: 1766
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Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.
Everitt, Graham.Date: 1888
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Discoveries in the science and art of healing : with observations on the primary cause of disease, and testimonials upon which the author rests his claims to public confidence : together with an appendix containing remarks on the evidence in the case of the late Miss Cashin / by J. St. John Long.
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.Date: 1831
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Quacks and quack-medicines.
Date: [1839]
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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?]
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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
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An historiall expostulation against the beastlye abusers, both of chyrurgerie and physyke, in oure tyme : with a goodlye doctrine and instruction, necessarye to be marked and folowed, of all true chirurgiens / By John Halle, chyrurgyen. Edited by T.J. Pettigrew.
Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-1568 or 1569.Date: 1844
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Index sanitatis : Eyn sc̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈ḧns und vast nützlichs Büchlin, genannt Zeyger der Gesundtheyt . . . / Durch Philippum Begardi.
Begardi, Philippus.Date: 1539
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The danger, irrationality, and evils of medical quackery ... containing the composition of many popular quack medicines / [Charles Cowan].
Cowan, Charles, 1806-1868.Date: 1839
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Quack doctors dissected; or, a new, cheap, and improved edition of Corry's 'Detector of quackery': containing several curious anecdotes of Solomon, Brodum, Perkins and other modern empirics; with strictures on bookmakers, and puffing publishers / [John Corry].
Corry, John, approximately 1770-Date: [1810]
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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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Suite de la description des maladies veneriennes : ou l'on prouve l'insuffisance des fumigations, avec un traité sur les maladies appellées fleurs-blanches. Et une réponse à la critique de M. Astruc / Par M. [Roger] Dibon.
Dibon, Roger, 1687-1777.Date: 1741
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Theaterkunst & Heilkunst : Studien zu Theater und Anthropologie / herausgegeben von Gerda Baumbach ; unter Mitarbeit von Martina Hädge.
Date: 2002
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Remarks upon a speech lately published: in a letter addresse'd to Major S--w--n.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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Flies in the ointment : medical quacks, quirks and oddities / Jim Leavesley & George Biro ; illustrations by Adam Yazxhi.
Leavesley, J. H. (James H.), 1929-2019Date: 2001
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Remarks on the impositions of quacks, so much Practiced in this kingdom. Wherein Is exposed to the publick, the Means of distinguishing them from Able physicians and surgeons. And How much it is to be wished that the Laws would appoint some effectual Means to suppress these vile Ways of Practicing, so prejudicial to his Majesty's Subjects. By Vint. B-t Sworn Surgeon.
Brest, Vincent.Date: [1730?]
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Cautions and advice to the public, respecting some abuses in medicine, through the malpractices of quacks or pretenders to the medical and chirurgical arts / by William Jackson.
Jackson, William.Date: [1787?]
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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
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The hawkers and street dealers of the north of England manufacturing districts : quack doctors, cheap johns, ... being some account of their dealings, dodging, and doings / by Felix Folio [pseud].
Page, John, of Manchester.Date: 2005
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The general state of medical and chirurgical practice, ancient and modern, exhibited; : shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous, particularly in consumptions, asthmas, nervous, gouty, bilious, scorbutic, scrophulous, rheumatic, and in many other disorders, external as well as internal; and more rational, elegant, speedy, effectual, and lasting methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, aërial, aetherial, magnetic, and electric influences, effluvia, medicines, baths, vapours, and applications, ―recommended. To which are added a great number of recent and remarkable cases and cures, never before published. / By James Graham, M.D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1778
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Physicians and quacks.
Date: 1862
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Dr Jonathan Swan's quack magic : the dubious history of health fads and cures / Jonathan Swan.
Swan, Jonathan.Date: 2003
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Katterfelto : prince of puff / David Paton-Williams.
Paton-Williams, David.Date: [2008], ©2008
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Physical prudence; or, the quacks triumph over the faculty. Inscribed to Lord J. Cavendish.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]

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The quacks academy; or The dunce's directory : A new art to cross the old proverb, and make a man fool and physician both at a time. Discovering the several methods whereby so many ignorant pretenders obtain repute and practice. With allowance.

For the apology for so late a publication, see the next page. The analysis of a new quack-medicine, called An antidote, &c. By a member of one of the inferior corporations.

Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.

Discoveries in the science and art of healing : with observations on the primary cause of disease, and testimonials upon which the author rests his claims to public confidence : together with an appendix containing remarks on the evidence in the case of the late Miss Cashin / by J. St. John Long.

Quacks and quack-medicines.

An historiall expostulation against the beastlye abusers, both of chyrurgerie and physyke, in oure tyme : with a goodlye doctrine and instruction, necessarye to be marked and folowed, of all true chirurgiens / By John Halle, chyrurgyen. Edited by T.J. Pettigrew.

Index sanitatis : Eyn sc̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈ḧns und vast nützlichs Büchlin, genannt Zeyger der Gesundtheyt . . . / Durch Philippum Begardi.

The danger, irrationality, and evils of medical quackery ... containing the composition of many popular quack medicines / [Charles Cowan].

Quack doctors dissected; or, a new, cheap, and improved edition of Corry's 'Detector of quackery': containing several curious anecdotes of Solomon, Brodum, Perkins and other modern empirics; with strictures on bookmakers, and puffing publishers / [John Corry].

The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis.

Suite de la description des maladies veneriennes : ou l'on prouve l'insuffisance des fumigations, avec un traité sur les maladies appellées fleurs-blanches. Et une réponse à la critique de M. Astruc / Par M. [Roger] Dibon.

Theaterkunst & Heilkunst : Studien zu Theater und Anthropologie / herausgegeben von Gerda Baumbach ; unter Mitarbeit von Martina Hädge.

Remarks upon a speech lately published: in a letter addresse'd to Major S--w--n.

Flies in the ointment : medical quacks, quirks and oddities / Jim Leavesley & George Biro ; illustrations by Adam Yazxhi.

Cautions and advice to the public, respecting some abuses in medicine, through the malpractices of quacks or pretenders to the medical and chirurgical arts / by William Jackson.

The hawkers and street dealers of the north of England manufacturing districts : quack doctors, cheap johns, ... being some account of their dealings, dodging, and doings / by Felix Folio [pseud].

Physicians and quacks.

Dr Jonathan Swan's quack magic : the dubious history of health fads and cures / Jonathan Swan.

Katterfelto : prince of puff / David Paton-Williams.

Physical prudence; or, the quacks triumph over the faculty. Inscribed to Lord J. Cavendish.