224 results filtered with: Quacks and quackery
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Piazza Navona, Rome. Line engraving by P. Ruga.
Date: [1830?]Reference: 2958304i- Pictures
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A sailor with a bandaged eye consulting a mercenary medical practitioner. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807?, after G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1807?]Reference: 11208i- Pictures
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A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.Date: [1841]Reference: 20717i- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of three musicians to an audience in the ruins of a temple. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1773.
Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de, 1736-1810.Date: 1773Reference: 20786i- Pictures
A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16509i- Books
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Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.
Everitt, Graham.Date: 1888- Pictures
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J. St. John Long (a dubious medical practitioner) dressed as a funeral mourner surrounded by ducks and placards which advertise several malpractice cases of his in which patients died. Coloured etching attributed to A. Sharpshooter, 1830.
Sharpshooter, A.Date: 8 September 1830Reference: 21000i- 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
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The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 26884i- Archives and manuscripts
M0006852: A charlatan doctor
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/25Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 1.
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A French itinerant medicine vendor on stage selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, and etching by A.J. Duclos after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 20598i- Pictures
A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
Pinelli, Bartolomeo, 1781-1835.Date: 1821Reference: 20995i- Pictures
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Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine salesman, demonstrating his wares with the aid of a monkey. Engraving by G. Walker, 1792, after M. Laroon.
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.Date: 10 July 1793Reference: 20589i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 20443i- 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
Index sanitatis : Eyn sc̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈ḧns und vast nützlichs Büchlin, genannt Zeyger der Gesundtheyt . . . / Durch Philippum Begardi.
Begardi, Philippus.Date: 1539- Books
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An exposition of quackery and imposture in medicine : being a popular treatise on medical philosophy / With notes by W. Wright.
Ticknor, Caleb, 1804-1840.Date: 1839- Ephemera
Doctor Smethurst very lucky again.
Date: [between 1860 and 1869?]- Pictures
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Doctor Bossy, an infamous medicine vendor performing on stage to a crowd at Tower Hill in an attempt to sell his wares. Etching.
Reference: 20576i- Pictures
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A German itinerant medicine vendor on horseback selling his wares. Engraving by I. Helman, 1777, after J. Bertaux, 1776.
Bertaux, Jacques, 1745-1818.Date: [1777]Reference: 546400i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares at a country market, assisted by a woman. Colour stipple engraving by L.-M. Bonnet after J.-P. Caresme.
Caresme, Jacques-Philippe, 1734-1796.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 21034i- Books
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Die wichtigsten der bis jetzt bekannten Geheimmittel und Specialitäten mit Angabe ihrer Zusammensetzung und ihres Werthes / zusammengestellt von Eduard Hahn.
Hahn, Eduard.Date: 1876- Pictures
William Pitt the younger as an obstetrician and medicine vendor, accompanied by Henry Dundas as his assistant, disputing with Napoleon Bonaparte their respective medicinal remedies for the delivery of Europe. Etching after C. Ansell (?), 1800.
Ansell, Charles, approximately 1752-Date: [1800]Reference: 663331i- Pictures
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Doctor Saltinbanco, a medicine vendor, attacking one of his clients for non-payment. Coloured etching.
Reference: 20638i