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A medicine vendor holding up a small flask of medicine for sale. Red chalk drawing attributed to Nicolaes Walraven van Haeften.
Walraven van Haeften, Nicolaes, 1663-1715.Date: 1694Reference: 36151i- Books
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Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.
Everitt, Graham.Date: 1888- Books
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Quacks and quack-medicines.
Date: [1839]- Books
The danger, irrationality, and evils of medical quackery ... containing the composition of many popular quack medicines / [Charles Cowan].
Cowan, Charles, 1806-1868.Date: 1839- Books
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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- Books
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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- Archives and manuscripts
Lettsom, John Coakley (1744-1815), Physician
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: 1766-1812Reference: MSS.3245-3249, 5370 and 8684- Books
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]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0010466: "Metallic Tractors", James Gillray, 1801
Date: 25 February 1948Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/92/48Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Pears, Charles, 1873-1958.Date: 1912Reference: 15398i- Books
Index sanitatis : Eyn sc̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈ḧns und vast nützlichs Büchlin, genannt Zeyger der Gesundtheyt . . . / Durch Philippum Begardi.
Begardi, Philippus.Date: 1539- Books
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- Books
The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis.
Davis, Robert J., 1963-Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
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- Books
Theaterkunst & Heilkunst : Studien zu Theater und Anthropologie / herausgegeben von Gerda Baumbach ; unter Mitarbeit von Martina Hädge.
Date: 2002- Books
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Physicians and quacks.
Date: 1862- Books
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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?]- Books
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- 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
Dr Jonathan Swan's quack magic : the dubious history of health fads and cures / Jonathan Swan.
Swan, Jonathan.Date: 2003- Books
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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- Pictures
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A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1893Reference: 14302i- Books
Katterfelto : prince of puff / David Paton-Williams.
Paton-Williams, David.Date: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.
Reference: 20529i- Pictures
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i