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Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America / Eric W. Boyle.
Boyle, Eric W.Date: [2013], ©2013- Books
The golden days of Doctor Quack / adapted by Leo Harris from a radio programme by Leo Knowles.
Knowles, LeoDate: 1975- Books
Gerald J. Macaura : Anglo-American quack / J.O. Baylen.
Baylen, Joseph O.Date: 1974- Books
Medical adventures and memoirs of Manucci : "an Italian quack doctor in India in the second half of the seventeenth century" / by D.V.S. Reddy.
Subba Reddy, D. V., 1899-1987.Date: 1962- Student dissertations
James Graham : 'doctor of medicine and lover of his species..' or simply a quack? / Hannah Baynes.
Baynes, Hannah.Date: 1997- 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
Gadding about quack like : the science of deception and the practice of physic in the narrative of Henry Tufts / Daniel E. Williams.
Williams, Daniel E., 1951-Date: 1990- Pictures
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A quack selling medicines. Oil painting.
Reference: 45031i- 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- Pictures
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A Dutch quack doctor out of his depth on a spirited horse; implying his medical limitations. Engraving.
Reference: 10934i- Books
Counterknowledge : how we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history / Damian Thompson.
Thompson, Damian, 1962-Date: 2008- Books
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For the apology for so late a publication, see the next page. The analysis of a new quack-medicine, called An antidote, &c. By a member of one of the inferior corporations.
Member of one of the inferior corporations.Date: 1766- Pictures
A man composed of testimonials for quack-medicines takes some medicine from a bottle in the vain hope of curing his syphilis or gonorrhoea. Colour lithograph by L. Karsakov, 1944.
Karsakov, Leonard, 1917-1993.Date: 1944Reference: 678378i- Books
Quack, quack, quack : the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries / by William H. Helfand.
Helfand, William H.Date: 2002- Books
Mysterious medicine : the doctor-scientist tales of Hawthorne and Poe / edited by L. Kerr Dunn.
Date: [2016]- Pictures
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A troupe of quack medicine vendors crying up their wares, representing Opposition politicians advertising their policies to the Prince Regent, but he, represented as a horse ridden by R.C. Wellesley, gallops away from them. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank after "Nathaniel NoParty", 1812.
NoParty, Nathaniel, active 1812.Date: 1 Feb[r]u[a]ry 1812Reference: 38480i- Pictures
An itinerant quack-doctor. Oil painting by an English painter, mid-19th century.
Reference: 45035i- Pictures
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Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: 1 March 1830Reference: 12228i- 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 quack doctor and a dissenting parson selling their respective goods from a fairground booth. Coloured etching, 1795.
Date: Septr. 3 1795Reference: 46947i- Books
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The Thompsonian quack, or the miraculous cure and marvellous metamorphosis : a satire on somebody / by Nathan Nobody ; with a critique by Billy Booby.
Yellott, George, 1819-Date: 1848- Books
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Quacks and quack-medicines.
Date: [1839]- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor known as Medicine Jack carrying his wares in a knapsack on his back. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 21057i- 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. The second edition. To which are now added, Appendix I. Containing farther Animadversions on a celebrated Quack Medicine, and Remarks on the Medical Powers and Use of the Dulcified Acids. Appendix II. An Essay on Therapeutics. 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 Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
A medicine vendor selling to a crowd at a fair. Process print after C. Pears, 1912.
Pears, Charles, 1873-1958.Date: 1912Reference: 15398i