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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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It is all part and parcel of the same system of quackery and nonsense, for which I regret to say that the writer is notorious. Renfrew, the colonel's widow, was not only unexceptionable in point of breeding, but also interesting on the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional knowledge might need the supplement of quackery. The Alchemist' castigates quackery and its foolish encouragers; and |
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