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Quack doctors dissected; or, a new, cheap, and improved edition of Corry's 'Detector of quackery': containing several curious anecdotes of Solomon, Brodum, Perkins and other modern empirics; with strictures on bookmakers, and puffing publishers / [John Corry].
Corry, John, approximately 1770-Date: [1810]- Books
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Quack doctors and their doings : a warning to invalids : being an exposure of the frauds of medical impostors upon their suffering and credulous victims : compiled from information supplied by persons who have been duped / by James S. Garrard.
Garrard, James S.Date: 1882- Books
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Quack doctor's speech Gentlemen, I Waltho Van Clauturbank, High German Doctor, ...
Van Clauturbank, Waltho.Date: 1760?]- Books
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The quack doctors. A satire. In hudibrastic stile.
Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs / By various hands.
Date: 1762- Pictures
A quack doctor offering a gouty John Bull some medicine while conventional doctors are turned away; referring to British politics. Coloured lithograph attributed to J. Doyle.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Reference: 12250iPart of: Political Squibs- Books
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The harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors, in town and country, ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs. By various hands.
Date: [1750?]- Books
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors in town and country ... Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs / By various hands.
Date: [1750?]- Pictures
A crowd watching a troupe of quack-doctors on a stage outside an inn. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1640(?).
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 45030i- Books
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- Ephemera
Avis intéressant : Capet, ancien chirurgien, domicilié à Chaussin, héritier des talents de son père dont le nom et la réputation sont connus par les nombreuses cures et opérations qu'il a faites avec succès.
Capet, Chirurgien.Date: [18-?]- Books
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An Explanation of the vices of the age: Shewing, the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of petty-lawyers, the cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the-intrigues of lewd women.
Date: [1800?]- Books
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An explanation of the vices of the age: shewing the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of petty-lawyers. The cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the intrigues of lewd women.
Date: [1795?]- Books
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An Explanation of the vices of the age. Wherein are explained the knavery of landlords, the imposition of quack doctors, the roguery of pettifogging lawyers, the cheats of bum-bailiffs, and the intrigues of lewd women.
Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXXV [1785]- Books
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Plain direction, &c. for the cure of the venereal disease. Together with efficacious and approved remedies, adapted to every symptom of that dirorder ... Designed, chiefly to rescue the poor ... from the destructive hands of unskillful apothecaries and quack-doctors / [John Wall].
Wall, John, 1708-1776Date: 1764- Books
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The Harangues, or speeches, of several celebrated quack-doctors, in town and country. Containing, 1. Dr Rock's harangue to his political patients in Covent-Garden. 2. Dr Rand's speech, in prose and verse. 3. The High German doctor's, and his English fool's harrangue, with the quack's invitation to his auditors, to buy his infallible packet, in humorous verse. 4. The horse-doctor's speech to the credulous mob. 5. T. Jones's harangue, the Yorkshire quack. 6. Alexander Bendo's speech to the gentlemen and ladies of Great Britain. 7. Jo. Hains's speech the High German doctor and astrologer in Brandipolis. 8. R. Wilmore's harangue in praise of his divine elixir. 9. Don Lopus's harangue to his patients at Madrid, with a brace of songs, translated from the Spanish by an impartial hand. Concluding with the character of a quack, several merry receipts, and three mountebank songs. By various hands.
Date: 1762- Ephemera
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[Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
Date: [Between 1880 and 1889?]- 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, and quack medicine, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged ... / By James Makittrick Adair.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: 1787- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 10756i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 544395i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1736Reference: 544396i- Pictures
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A shield containing a group portrait of various doctors and quacks, including Mrs Mapp, Dr. Joshua Ward and John Taylor. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736, after himself.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 3 March 1736Reference: 544394i- 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 / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: 1787- Pictures
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A quack and a clown on stage presenting their wares to a hostile audience; referring to various politicians reactions to the replacement of the fixed duty on corn. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1841.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 15 May 1841Reference: 13436iPart of: HB Sketches- Pictures
A Dutch quack doctor promoting his wares before an audience of townspeople. Etching.
Reference: 10979i