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Remarks on the impositions of quacks, so much Practiced in this kingdom. Wherein Is exposed to the publick, the Means of distinguishing them from Able physicians and surgeons. And How much it is to be wished that the Laws would appoint some effectual Mean
Brest, Vincent- Books
Curious enquiries. Being six brief discourses, viz. I. Of the longitude. II. The tricks of astrological quacks. III. Of the depth of the sea. IV. Of tobacco. V. Of Europes being too full of people. VI. The various opinions concerning the time of keeping the Sabbath.
Date: 1688- E-books
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A bold challenge to the whole colledge of physicians: or, a defence of those practitioners in physick commonly call'd quacks, namely Dr. M---tin, Dr. M---re, Dr. V---k---s, Dr. W---t--s, Dr. T---l--g, Dr. Th---n--lt, Dr. Anodyne Necklace. Cum multis alijs
Date: 1740- E-books
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Four satires. Viz. I. On national vices. Inscrib'd to K-t, S-n, H-d-gg-r, F-rn-Lli, &c. II. On writers. Inscrib'd to B-l-ke, P-t-y, Osborne, Walsingham, &c. III. On quacks. Inscrib'd to Dr. D-v-r, Dr. M-kl-d, Dr. M-ss-b-n, Dr. W-d, Dr. T-l-r, &c. IV. On r
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The true history of Dr. Robin Sublimate, and his associates, or, Bob turn'd physician : wherein the whole art and mystery of a certain kind of quackery is fully laid open, and such a description of the quacks, and their artifices exhibited to the publick, and may tend to put a stop to their practice.
Date: 1733- Books
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Gonosologium novum: or, a new system of all the secret infirmities and diseases, natural, accidental, and venereal in men and women ... With a further warning against quacks / By John Marten ... Written by way of appendix to the sixth edition of his book of the venereal disease lately publish'd.
Marten, John, -1737Date: 1709- Books
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The pisse-prophet, or, Certain pisse-pot lectures : wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pis-pot science used by all those (whether quacks, and empiricks, or other methodical physicians) who pretend knowledg of diseases by the urine in giving judgement of the same / by Tho. Brian.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1655- Books
The pisse-prophet, or, Certaine pisse pot lectures wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pisse-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks and empiricks, or other methodicall physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same / by Tho. Brian.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th century.Date: 1968- Books
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Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The clothing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery ... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue ... / By Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph [pseuds. of James Makittrick Adair].
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: [1790?]- 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- Books
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The pisse-prophet, or, Certain pisse-pot lectures : Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the piss-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks, and empiricks, or other methodical physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same. By Tho. Brian, M.P. lately in the City of London, and now in Colchester, in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1679- Books
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The pisse-prophet, or, Certaine pisse-pot lectures : Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the pisse-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks and empiricks, or other methodicall physicians) who pretend knowledge of diseases, by the urine, in giving judgement of the same. By Tho. Brian, M.P. lately in the citie of London, and now in Colchester in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1637- Books
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Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines, occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen; or, a candid ... inquiry into the ... advertised remedies ... Wherein ... have been ... interspersed ... animadversions tending to defend minerals ... by proving the superiority of the productions of the mineral ... kingdoms / [Francis Spilsbury].
Spilsbury, Francis.Date: 1776- Books
The pisse-prophet or, certain pisse-pot lectures. Wherein are newly discovered the old fallacies, deceit, and jugling of the piss-pot science, used by all those (whether quacks, and empiricks, or other methodical physicians) who pretend knowledg of diseases, by the urine. In giving judgment of the same / By Tho: Brian, M.P. lately in the city of Lomdon [!], and now in Colchester, in Essex. Never heretofore published by any man in the English tongue.
Brian, Thomas, active 17th century.Date: [1655]- Pictures
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Books
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Quackery unmask'd: or, reflections on the sixth edition of Mr. Martin's [Marten's] Treatise of the veneral disease ... and the pamphlet call'd The charitable surgeon, &c. Containing ... observations concerning the veneral disease; and the method and medicines proper for its ... curation. Proper remarks on Mr. Martin's Admirable medicine and his Infallible preservative. A full ... account of quacks and ... An account of some excellent medicines, etc / [John Spinke].
Spinke, JohnDate: 1709- 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- Books
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Free thoughts on quacks and their medicines, occasioned by the death of Dr. Goldsmith and Mr. Scawen; or, a candid ... inquiry into the merits and dangers imputed to advertised remedies ... To which is added some remarks on the nature, cause and remedy of the scurvy and gout. Also a plan of the dispensary for the poor, instituted in 1773 / [Francis Spilsbury].
Spilsbury, Francis, 1733?-1793.Date: 1777- Books
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Remarks on the impositions of quacks : so much practiced in this Kingdom. Wherein is exposed to the public themeans of distinguishing them from able physicians and surgeons. And how much it is to be wished that the laws would appoint some effectual means to suppress these vile ways of practicing, so prejudicial to his Majesty's subjects / By Vint. B-t.
Brest, Vincent.Date: [1728?]- Books
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Apologia chyrurgica : A vindication of the noble art of chyrurgery, from the gross abuses offer'd thereunto by mountebanks, quacks, barbers, pretending bone-setters, with other ignorant undertakers. Wherein their fraudulent practices are plainly detected by several remarkable observations, their fair promises prov'd fictions, their administrations pernicious, their confident pretences injurious and destructive to the welfare of the people. By Daniel Turner, practitioner in chyrurgery. Imprimatur. Datum in comitiis censoriis ex ædibus collegii nostri, Jan. 11. 1694. John Lawson, president. Samuel Collins, Richard Torless, Edward Tyson, Martin Lister, censores.
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741Date: 1695- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Collection preview press coverage for "Exquisite Bodies" and "Quacks and Cures"
Date: June-July 2009Reference: WT/B/7/4/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Proceedings of the February 1990 meeting, Epsom District Hospital / the History of Anaesthesia Society ; editor D. J. Wilkinson.
Date: [1990?]- Books
Proceedings of the July 1989 meeting with the Scottish Society of Anaesthetists, University of Edinburgh / the History of Anaesthesia Society ; editor D. J. Wilkinson.
Date: [989?]- Books
Proceedings of the meeting of 31 May - 1 June 1991, Rotterdam / the History of Anaesthesia Society ; editor D. J. Wilkinson.
Date: [1992]- 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