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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- 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]- Digital Images
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Hogarth's Marriage a la mode, The Quack Doctor's Studio
William Hogarth- Pictures
An English fool acting as spokesman for a Dutch quack doctor; an ornate border composed of the paraphernalia of quackery surrounds his proclamation. Engraving by G. Bickham.
Reference: 10935i- Books
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A supplement to the history of the Crown-Inn, for the first three years under the new landlord. With Additional Characters of some of the chief Servants. To which is added, some account of an adventure which lately happen'd at the Mitre-Inn in the same town. With the Character of Merry-Andrew, and his Pacquet: And other eminent Quacks that frequent the House.
Date: [1717?]- Books
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A supplement to the history of the Crown-Inn, for the first three years under the new landlord. With Additional Characters of some of the chief Servants. To which is added, some account of an adventure which lately happen'd at the Mitre-Inn in the same town. With the Character of Merry-Andrew, and his pacquet: And other eminent Quacks that frequent the House.
Date: [1717]- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Books
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Professional morality in 1831, or the lawyer's defence of medical quackery : in which John St. John Long's discoveries are examined, and his claims to the confidence of the British public, are criticised / by a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, and a master of surgery and arts.
Date: 1831- Archives and manuscripts
James Bower Harrison Popular Medical Errors, addenda
Harrison, James Bower, FRCS (d. 1890)Date: c. 1852-1881Reference: MS.8482- Books
Suite de la description des maladies veneriennes : ouvrage dans lequel on traite des retentions dùrine et en general des maladies de lùrethre / Par M. [Roger] Dibon.
Dibon, Roger, 1687-1777.Date: [1748]- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. G.Date: [1725?]- Archives and manuscripts
M0010402: Charlatans at work, from Clowes: A briefe and necessarie treatise, 1585
Date: 09 January 1948Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/91/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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L'idée et le triomphe de la vraie medecine, en forme d'apologie. : Ouvrage non-seulement curieux & instructif, mais encore utile & profitable, tant au public qu'à tous ceux qui veulent connoître de la médecine. / Par M. Callot, docteur en médecine de l'Université de Montpellier.
Callot, François Joseph, 1690-1780.Date: M. DCC. XLII. [1742]- Pictures
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A travelling medicine vendor on horseback making a speech to a crowd of people. Engraving by T. Slater, ca. 1713.
Date: [1713?]Reference: 575019i- Archives and manuscripts
The Mock Doctor's Speech
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.5326- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007104: Manuscript illustration of charlatan doctor with assistant
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/92Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. GDate: [1700]- Books
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The efficacy of Perkins's patent metallic tractors, in topical diseases, on the human body and animals; exemplified by 250 cases, From the first Literary Characters in Europe and America. To which is prefixed, a preliminary discourse, in which, the fallacious attempts of Dr. Haygarth, to detract from the merits of the tractors, are detected, and fully confuted. By Benjamin Douglas Perkins, A. M. Of Leicester-Square; (son Of DR. Perkins The Discoverer.)
Perkins, Benjamin Douglas, 1774-1810.Date: [1800]- Ephemera
Doctor Smethurst very lucky again.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Archives and manuscripts
M0006835: A charlatan dentist
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/8Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
A quack in court / Thomas R. Forbes.
Forbes, Thomas Rogers, 1911-1988.Date: 1981- Digital Images
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Text from Compositions of quack medicines, Lancet.
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Quack displaying his wares to a crowd.
Willem Buytenwegh- Digital Images
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Text from Compositions of quack medicines, Lancet.
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Mr. Patence, quack / by B.R. Townend.
Townend, B. R.Date: [1942]