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Medical fringe & medical orthodoxy 1750-1850 / edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter.
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Doctoring the novel : medicine and quackery from Shelley to Doyle / Sylvia A. Pamboukian.
Pamboukian, Sylvia A.Date: [2012], ©2012- Books
'The vile race of quacks with which this country is infested' / Irvine Loudon.
Loudon, Irvine (Irvine S. L.)- Books
La vita meravigliosa del cavalier incognito ossia di Vittorio Cornelio: comico, spadaccino, eremita, ciarlatano e chirurgo dentista del re di Sardegna (1752-1832) / [Tirsi Mario Caffaratto].
Caffaratto, Tirsi Mario.Date: 1966- Ephemera
The justly far famed and highly celebrated Dr. von Isaac Slaukenbergius, high German, Hebrew-doctor ... takes this public method of announcing his arrival at the present period of the celebration of that renowned gala, the Guild at Preston.
Date: [between 1800 and 1838?]- Books
The golden days of Doctor Quack / adapted by Leo Harris from a radio programme by Leo Knowles.
Knowles, LeoDate: 1975- Pictures
Patients consulting an obese quack. Aquatint by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1 November 1808Reference: 11734i- Pictures
Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1807Reference: 11733i- Pictures
An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1815Reference: 20943i- Student dissertations
The sale and manufacture of proprietary medicines and the campaign by the B.M.A. against "secret remedies" / E.J. Hall.
Hall, Elsje J.Date: 1995- Pictures
An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint by J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 November 1801Reference: 11820i- Pictures
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11819i- Pictures
An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Reference: 11818i- Pictures
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An operator treating the carbuncled nose of an obese patient with "Perkins's tractors". Coloured reproduction of an aquatint after J. Gillray, 1801.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 11 November 1801Reference: 11817i- Books
Gullible's travails : tuberculosis and quackery 1890-1930 / Barry Smith.
Smith, Barry.Date: 1985- 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- Pictures
An operator treating Ann Ford, a society lady, with "Perkins's tractors", for her venomous tongue. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1802.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 16 September 1802Reference: 11821i- Books
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The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña.
Peña, Carolyn Thomas de laDate: [2003], ©2003- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor in England selling his wares inside a country inn. Coloured etching by T. Illman.
Date: [1820?]Reference: 20932i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine salesman performing his sales pitch on stage to a small group of people. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20600i- Ephemera
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Morison's Pills : the wonderful power of the pills exemplified showing the same person before and after having taken a dose : dedicated with profound respect to all true disciples of Esculapius, more especially to the Royal College of Physicians / by Pilula Rhubarbus, M.D., Professor of Phlebotomy to the Royal Islington abattoirs : sung by Mr. Fitzwilliam.
Rhubarbus, Pilula.Date: [1835]- Books
Pseudo-science and society in nineteenth-century America / Arthur Wrobel, editor.
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
"The foolmaster who fooled them" / James Harvey Young.
Young, James Harvey.Date: 1980- Books
Nomen est Omen? : pseudoexotische Fertigarzneimittel / Axel Helmstädter.
Helmstädter, Axel.Date: 1993- Books
Hawthorne's mad scientists : pseudoscience and social science in nineteenth-century life and letters / by Taylor Stoehr.
Stoehr, Taylor, 1931-2013.Date: 1978