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Quackery barber-surgeon inferior doctor; formerly a barber performing dentistry and surgery. [Medicine: Misc.] offered bad burgundy as panacea for lovelessness. [Ital. Opera: Donizetti, Elixir of Love; EB, 5: 953–954] court physician; practically starves Sancho Panza in the interest of diet. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote] fat, 18th-century quack; professed to cure every imaginable disease. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 888] ignorant physician; believed blood not necessary for life. [Fr. Lit.: Gil Blas] great 18th-century quack, forever advising against disreputable doctors. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 888] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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After a grand jury investigation, Walker and Green were arrested Wednesday and, along with Garabet, face seven counts of health fraud, carrying a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Materials regarding the Medical Bureau's chain of facilities can be found in Lanteen, folders 2-4, box 465, Historical Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection (Archives of the American Medical Association, AMA Building, Chicago, Illinois). 10) In 1998, the National Council Against Health Fraud concluded that "cranial osteopathy is more a belief system than a science. |
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