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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- 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- Pictures
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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17152i- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20918i- Books
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A ramble through London: containing observations on men and things, viz. some account of the vast number of foreigners and their behaviour. Of the Scotch, Irish, and Welsh; the first, filling us with Quacks, Beggars and Pedlars; the next with Robbers, Bullies and Evidence and the last, with Footmen, Porters, and Draymen, instead of Gentlemen. A merry Description of the Court End of the Town, and of the City. A Conversation between a Sodomitical Baronet, a Bawd, and the Author, on a Bench in St. James's Park. The Resolutions and Schemes of the Affidavit Club, or Irish Society of Fortune-Hunters for the current Year. Female Conversation described, and the Band of Petticoat Pensioners in the City. The Management of Authors, Printers, and Publishers. The insufferable Behaviour of City 'prentices. Practices of Death-Hunters; the Humours of the Royal Exchange. Together with a small collection of the most refin'd jests from St. James's. And many other curious Particulars touching the Town. By a true-born Englishman.
True-born Englishman.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Digital Images
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Song sheet with illustration: 'The quack doctor'.
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The prescription / Quack & Co.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Pictures
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Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
White, William Johnstone.Date: 31 March 1818Reference: 2353i- Pictures
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A life in 24 silhouettes of Jan Kwak, a successful quack-doctor. Process print after N. Bodenheim, c. 1900.
Bodenheim, Nelly, 1874-1951.Reference: 17777i- 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
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
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- Books
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An essay on regimen, for the preservation of health, especially of the indolent, studious, delicate and invalid; illustrated by appropriate cases; to which are Added, Observations on what is vulgarly termed Catching Cold, on the Art of Mending Health, on Fashionable Diseases, on Lady and Gentlemen Doctors, and on Quacks and Quackery: with seasonable remarks, Economical, Moral and Religious, on the present state of the British Dominions. The profits to be faithfully applied to the purposes of Charity. By James M. Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Formerly, Physician to the Commander in Chief of the Leeward Islands, and to the Colonial Troops, and one of the Judges of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in the Leeward Islands.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1799]- Pictures
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A quack selling medicines. Oil painting.
Reference: 45031i- Archives and manuscripts
Reply to toast, re quack remedies
Date: c.1930sReference: GP/31/B/2/13Part of: Horder, Thomas Jeeves, Lord Horder of Ashford (1871-1955)- Books
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The moral quack. A dramatic satire.
Bacon, Phanuel, 1700-1783.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
A thieving quack / John W. Howard.
Howard, John WDate: 1972- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Books
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John Evans, his hummums is in Brownlow-Street in Drury-Lane, where persons may sweat to what degree they please : there being degrees of heat, and several appartments, fit and commodious for private sweating, bathing, and fine cupping.
Evans, John, quackDate: [after 1679]