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The hawkers and street dealers of the north of England manufacturing districts : quack doctors, cheap johns, ... being some account of their dealings, dodging, and doings / by Felix Folio [pseud].
Page, John, of Manchester.Date: 2005- Books
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Cautions and advice to the public, respecting some abuses in medicine, through the malpractices of quacks or pretenders to the medical and chirurgical arts / by William Jackson.
Jackson, William.Date: [1787?]- Books
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The general state of medical and chirurgical practice, ancient and modern, exhibited; : shewing them to be inadequate, ineffectual, absurd, and ridiculous, particularly in consumptions, asthmas, nervous, gouty, bilious, scorbutic, scrophulous, rheumatic, and in many other disorders, external as well as internal; and more rational, elegant, speedy, effectual, and lasting methods of cure, by means of diet, simple medicines, aërial, aetherial, magnetic, and electric influences, effluvia, medicines, baths, vapours, and applications, ―recommended. To which are added a great number of recent and remarkable cases and cures, never before published. / By James Graham, M.D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1778- 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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Physicians and quacks.
Date: 1862- Books
Katterfelto : prince of puff / David Paton-Williams.
Paton-Williams, David.Date: [2008], ©2008- Pictures
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A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.
Reference: 20529i- Books
Dr Jonathan Swan's quack magic : the dubious history of health fads and cures / Jonathan Swan.
Swan, Jonathan.Date: 2003- Books
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Physical prudence; or, the quacks triumph over the faculty. Inscribed to Lord J. Cavendish.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Pictures
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A doctor angry with his patient for trying quack medicine as well as his own prescription. Wood engraving by H.M. Brock, 1909.
Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew), 1875-1960.Date: 1909Reference: 15370i- Books
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The sophistry of empiricism.
Date: 1853- Archives and manuscripts
Italian Medical Miscellany, 17-18th Century
Date: 1641-1739Reference: MS.5861- Books
Scientists and scoundrels : a book of hoaxes / Robert Silverberg.
Silverberg, Robert.Date: 2007- 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. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i- 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
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An historiall expostulation: against beastlye abusers, both of chyrurgerie the [sic] and physyke, in oure tyme: : with a goodlye doctrine and instruction, necessarye to be marked and folowed, of all true chirurgiens: / By John Halle, chyrurgyen. Edited by T.J. Pettigrew.
Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-1568 or 1569.Date: M.DCCC.XLIV. [1844]- Pictures
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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Faivre, Abel, 1867-1945.Date: 22 March 1902Reference: 17152i- Books
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Morisoniana, or Family advisor of the British College of Health : being a collection of the works of Mr Morison, the hygeist ; comprising 'Origin of life, and true cause of diseases explained' - 'Important advice to the world' - 'Letter on cholera morbus of India’ – ‘Anti-Lancet’ in six numbers – and ‘more new truths’. Forming a complete manual for individuals and families, for every thing that regards preserving them in health and curing their diseases. The whole tried and proved by the members of the British College of Health, as the only true theory and practice of medicine ; and thus furnishing ample testimony that the old medical science is completely wrong. With an appendix, containing numerous well-authenticated cures, and other interesting matter.
Morison, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1829- Books
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A treatise on the management of the teeth / by Benjamin James, M.M.S.S.
James, Benjamin.Date: 1814- Books
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Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.
Boulton, Samuel.Date: 1656- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- 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
The medical electricians : Dr. Scott and his Victorian colleagues in quackery / Robert K. Waits.
Waits, Robert K.Date: 2016- Books
Historia negra de la medicina : sanguijuelas, lobotomías, sacamantecas u otros tratamientos absurdos, desagradables y terroríficos a lo largo de la historia / José-Alberto Palma.
Palma, José-AlbertoDate: 2016- Books
L'orvietano / Patrizia Catellani, Renzo Console.
Catellani, PatriziaDate: 2004