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L'orvietano / Patrizia Catellani, Renzo Console.
Catellani, PatriziaDate: 2004- Books
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The quacks unmask'd. Which detects, and sets in a true light, their pernicious and destructive practice; with some reasons why it ought to be entirely abolished: by P. Coltheart, Surgeon.
Coltheart, Peter.Date: 1727- 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. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1743Reference: 22260i- Ephemera
The west country puffing family : to be sung in character, to the tune of an "Old woman cloathed in grey" / Livy Puff, junr.
Puff, Livy.Date: [1783]- Books
The quacks of old London / by C.J.S. Thompson.
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943.Date: 1993,[1928]- Pictures
A German quack doctor asks a British nurse about a man with a bowel complaint: misunderstanding the doctor, she has served the patient puppies instead of poppies, and an almanac instead of bole ammoniac. Coloured etching, 1803.
Date: 1 January 1803Reference: 10980i- Pictures
Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 November 1808Reference: 11734i- Books
Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.Date: [2012], ©2012- Pictures
Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1807Reference: 11733i- Books
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Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.
British Medical Association.Date: 1909- 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: 1907- Books
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More secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. (Secret remedies, 2nd series).
British Medical Association.Date: 1912- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Date: 1798Reference: 20882i- Books
My year of rest and relaxation / Ottessa Moshfegh.
Moshfegh, OttessaDate: 2018- Books
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The Character of a quack-doctor, or The abusive practices of impudent illiterate pretenders to physick exposed.
Date: 1676- Books
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The Character of a quack-doctor, or The abusive practices of impudent illiterate pretenders to physick exposed.
Date: 1676- Books
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The modern quack; or medicinal impostor. In three parts. With a supplement, displaying the present set of pretenders to clap-curing, giving Judgment upon Urine, &c. wherein their Frauds and Abuses are laid open; Rules also to know, and Cautions against them. And, 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 Town, with the Places of their several Abodes or Habitations. The second edition. To which, as related to the same Subject, are added by another hand, Some remarks upon Dr. Hancock's treatise, which he entitles Febrifugum magnum: Or Cold Water the best Cure for Fevers. In a letter to the author.
Date: 1724- Books
Surdus in search of his hearing : an exposure of deafness quacks, frauds on the deaf, and a reliable guide to the best means of help for the deaf. Second section / by Evan Yellon.
Yellon, Evan.Date: 1910- Books
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Whereas the professor hereof, Iacobus Maximinus, borne in Italy, and lately come out of Germanie, hath attained vnto the demonstration of the making of foure most strange and rare artificiall stones, and a sweete ball, and the true vertues thereof: and the names and colours of euery stone : The first, is the moraccolocius stone is white: the famous amethist is the redde stone: the famous safaris is the purple stone: the safonya, which is the straw coloured stone, &c.
Maximinus, IacobusDate: [1622]- Books
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The modern quacks detected. In three parts. I. Exposing their qualifications and remedies. II. Proving the insufficiency of the letter to answer what is proposed by them. III. Unfolding the nature and ill consequences thereof. Dedicated to the president of the Royal College of Physicians, in London. In which are exhibited, reasons why they ought to admit Dr. Schomberg a member of their learned and honourable body. By a London Physician.
London physician.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Pictures
Isaac Swainson promoting his 'Velnos syrup', facing an onslaught of rival practitioners advocating mercury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 29 November 1789Reference: 10779i- Archives and manuscripts
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Commonplace Book
Date: c. 1810-1840Reference: MS.8894- Books
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Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates gift of healing examined : upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March the 7, 1665, at one Mr. Cressets house in Charter-house-yard : in a letter to a reverend divine, living near that place.
Lloyd, David, 1635-1692Date: 1666- Books
Mães, médicos e charlatães : configurações culturais e múltiplas represntações dos discursos médicos - sanitaristas (São Paulo, 1920-1930) / Sandra Regina Colucci.
Colucci, Sandra Regina, 1951-Date: 2008- Pictures
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Wilson after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16507i