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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 / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: 1787- Digital Images
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Text from Compositions of quack medicines, Lancet.
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Text from Compositions of quack medicines, Lancet.
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Quacks, a lecture by Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.Date: 1990- Books
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Revelations of quacks and quackery : a series of letters by "Detector," reprinted from the Medical circular / by their author F.B. Courtenay.
Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-86.Date: [1877]- Books
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The funny side of physic, or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries / by A. D. Crabtre, M. D.
Crabtre, Addison Darre.Date: 1874- Books
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The great American fraud : Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks, in two series, reprinted from Collier's weekly / by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958.Date: [1906]- Books
A lecture on quack medicines / [Thomas G. Wright].
Wright, Thomas Giordani, 1808-1898Date: 1843- Books
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Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle.
Date: 1908- Books
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The alderman's advice to his daughter; being a medicine or, cure for the scolding ladies. In answer to the scourge for ill wives. To which is added, a satyr upon an ignorant quack, that murder'd a friends child, which occasion'd the mother (upon the news of it,) to miscarry.
Date: Anno. Dom. 1737- Books
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Patent alias quack medicines / by the editor of Hygiene.
Abbots, William, 1831-Date: 1894- Digital Images
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Dr. Bossy, the quack of Dr. Bossy with assistants, selling medicines in London
W. Birch- Pictures
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Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Date: 2d. January 1774Reference: 46577i- 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]- Books
Device quackery in America / James Harvey Young.
Young, James Harvey.Date: 1978- Pictures
A medicine vendor addressing a crowd. Etching by C.E.C. Hess, 1794, after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Date: Published May 21st 1794Reference: 43236i- Pictures
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An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
Reference: 20922i- Pictures
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An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
Reference: 20670i- 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]- Books
Quacks : fakers and charlatans in English medicine / Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.Date: 2000- Videos
Medicine through time.
Date: 1998- Pictures
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A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
Reference: 20542i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares to a small group of country people. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou.
Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675.Reference: 20491i- Pictures
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A medicine vendor kneeling and praying. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1801, after G. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [30 July 1801]Reference: 20936i- Pictures
Hans Buling (?), an itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares with the aid of a monkey and a performer dressed as Harlequin. Engraving.
Reference: 20647i