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M0006835: A charlatan dentist
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/8Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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An enquiry into the nature and effects of quack medicines. And a new investigation of the constituent principles of antimony. With some observations on the nature and utility of inoculation. By an Apothecary in Dublin.
Apothecary in Dublin.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Pictures
A man composed of testimonials for quack-medicines takes some medicine from a bottle in the vain hope of curing his syphilis or gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1944.
Karsakov, Leonard, 1917-1993.Date: 1944Reference: 678378i- Pictures
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A quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
Date: Septr. 3 1795Reference: 46947i- Pictures
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A quack doctor assisting a voluptuous female patient with group magnetic therapy. Etching by J. Barlow, c. 1792, after J. Collings.
Collings, Samuel.Reference: 11828i- 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- Books
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The quack doctors. A satire. In hudibrastic stile.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
Portrait of a quack / by Ernest W. Page.
Page, Ernest W.Date: 1939- Books
A lecture on quack medicines / [Thomas G. Wright].
Wright, Thomas Giordani, 1808-1898Date: 1843- Books
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The quack doctor's oration, to the credulous mob.
Date: 1750?]- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Books
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A catalogue of some cures of the gout, rheumatism, sciatica, plurisie, cholick, and pains in the head. By J. Wiggens, at the Golden-Bail in Sugar-Loaf-Court, Leadenhall-Street. Who hopes none will condemn him, 'till they have enquired of those Persons herein mentioned, or (if they have Occasion) 'till they have made Tryal of him, which is the true Test, and by which he is content to stand or fall, have Credit or Disgrace.
Wiggins, J., quack doctor.Date: [1718?]- Books
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A new catalogue of some cures of the gout, rhumatism, sciatica, plurisie, cholick, sick and fainting fits, ... By Dr. Wiggins, ...
Wiggins, J., quack doctor.Date: [1725?]- Books
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A catalogue of some cures of the gout, rheumatism, sciatica, plurisie, cholick, and pains in the head. By J. Wiggins, at the Golden-Ball in Sugar-Loas-Court, Leadenhall-Street. Who hopes none will condemn him, 'till they have enquired of those Persons herein mentioned, or (if they have Occasion) 'till they have made Tryal of him, which is the true Test, and by which he is content to stand or fall, have Credit or Disgrace.
Wiggins, J., quack doctor.Date: [1726?]- 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- Ephemera
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The quack's song / written by F.C. Burnand ; music by W. Meyer Lutz ; sung ... by Edward Terry in F.C. Burnand's extravaganza "Camaralzaman.".
Lutz, Meyer, 1822-1903.Date: [1887]- Pictures
An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i- Pictures
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A quack-doctor examining a urine flask. Oil painting.
Date: 1549Reference: 44747i- Books
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The modern quack; or medicinal impostor ... / [Daniel Turner].
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741Date: 1724- Books
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Patent alias quack medicines / by the editor of Hygiene.
Abbots, William, 1831-Date: 1894- Books
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Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear.
Spear, Edmund Doe.Date: 1872- Books
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Business methods of specialists, or, How the advertising doctor succeeds : an exposition of the inside workings of the complicated structure the advertising specialist has built about himself, the doors of which are seldom open to the professional investigator / by Jacob Dissinger Albright.
Albright, Jacob Dissinger, 1870-Date: 1907- Books
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Kurpfuscherei und Aberglaube in der Medizin / von K. Doll und Dr. Neumann.
Doll, Karl.Date: 1906- Books
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A caution against vaccine swindlers, and imposters / by John Ring.
Ring, John, 1752-1821.Date: 1816- Books
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Mrs. Sarah Bradmores prophecy of the wonders that will happen, anno Dom. 1687 : Also what will be the effects of the whales comeing up the river of Thames, and continued the 4th. and 5th. of August, anno Dom. 1686.
Bradmore, SarahDate: 1686