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A Dutch quack doctor out of his depth on a spirited horse; implying his medical limitations. Engraving.
Reference: 10934i- Books
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Medical cautions; chiefly for the consideration of invalids. Containing essays on fashionable diseases The dangerous Effects of Hot and Crouded Rooms. An Enquiry into the Use of Medicine during a Course of Mineral Waters. On Quacks, Quack Medicines, and Lady Doctors. And An Essay on Regimen, very much enlarged. The second edition. To which are now added, Appendix I. Containing farther Animadversions on a celebrated Quack Medicine, and Remarks on the Medical Powers and Use of the Dulcified Acids. Appendix II. An Essay on Therapeutics. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
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A quack doctor irresponsibly dispensing his potions. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 10938i- Pictures
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A trio of quack doctors attending to Britannia: the Earl of Bute with an ass's head blindfolds a woman who is vomiting into a bowl held by Louis XV as a baboon: Tobias Smollett takes her pulse;while Henry Fox approaches her with a clyster-pipe; representing the loss of British assets to France in the Treaty of Paris. Etching attributed to Paul Sandby, 1762.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809Date: [1762]Reference: 12163i- Books
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The Character of a quack doctor, or, The Abusive practices of impudent illiterate pretenders to physick exposed.
Date: 1676- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002910: A quack doctor removing stones from a patient's head
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/66Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0002912: A quack doctor removing stones from a patient's head
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/68Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
Doctors ephemera. Box 1.
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M0002914: A quack doctor removing stones from a patient's head in a crowd of people
Date: 26 April 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/24/70Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Smart's aurum purgans.
Smart, quack doctorDate: [1665?]- Books
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Plain directions, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together With Efficacious and approved Remedies, adapted to every Symptom of that Disorder. Sufficient to enable persons to cure themselves, (even in the worst, and most obstinate Cases) without the Assistance of a Surgeon. Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor, and People of small Fortunes from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors. By J. Wall, surgeon.
Wall, J.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- 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
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The true explanation of the humours of the cheating age, or, a brief account of the behaviour of the town misses, pluchimin landlords, quack-doctors, Intruding of petty fogging Lawyers, Cheats of Bom-Baliffs, the Gin-Shop chat, the Tea-Table chat. A Serious and Diverting Dialogue between Tom stitch the Taylor's Wife, and Sir John crack Finger the halfpenny Larber's Wife. With many other Comical and Pleasant Passages worthy of Note. (no. 112).
Date: [1800?]- 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?]- Ephemera
Doctor Smethurst very lucky again.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Books
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Medical cautions, for the consideration of invalids; those especially who resort to Bath: containing essays on fashionable diseases; dangerous effects of hot and crowded rooms; regimen of diet, &c. An Enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters; an Essay on Quacks, Quack Medicines, and lady doctors; and an appendix, containing a table of the relative digestibility of foods, with explanatory observations. Published for the benefit of The General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, And Fellow of the College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- 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
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M0006922: A charlatan doctor
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/89Part 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- Digital Images
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Plague doctor as a quack
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The Mock Doctor's Speech
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.5326- 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- Books
Shropshire doctors & quacks : medical care in Shropshire, 1740-1899 / Richard Moore.
Moore, Richard.Date: 2011