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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- Pictures
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In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: April 1st 1745Reference: 38353iPart of: Marriage a-la-mode- Archives and manuscripts
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Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: 1770-1804Reference: MSS.3246-3248Part of: Lettsom, John Coakley (1744-1815), Physician- Books
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Cautions and advice to the public, respecting some abuses in medicine, through the malpractices of quacks or pretenders to the medical and chirurgical arts / by William Jackson.
Jackson, William.Date: [1787?]- 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?]- Pictures
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An itinerant medicine vendor reciting from a piece of paper trying and sell his wares to a small audience. Facsimile reproduction of an etching by J. Both after A. Both.
Both, Andries Dirksz, approximately 1608-1641?Reference: 20473i- Books
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Newes out of the west, or, The character of a mountebank : being a discourse betweene Hodge Leather-Pelch, and Tym Hob-Nayle, Sir Harry-Hart-Hole their land-lord, and his friend Sir Clement Councell : also of their travels from Taunton to London, their arrivall at their physitians pallace, the description of it, his sick and brain-sick followers, person and family, with a full relation of the medicines hee commonly administers, their operation and danger represented by them : also a relation of their abuses now suffered and fomented by authority, with a remedy set down, to the encouragement of physitians, illustration of the honour'd art and generall good of the Re-publicque / by a well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of them.
Well willer to physick and chirurgerie and deplorer of the now too common neglect of themDate: 1647- Books
Born with a junk food deficiency : how flaks, quacks, and hacks pimp the public health / by Martha Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, Martha, 1952-Date: 2012- Books
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Cautions and advice to the public, respecting some abuses in medicine, through the malpractices of quacks or pretenders to the medical and chirurgical arts. By William Jackson, ...
Jackson, William, active 1787.Date: [1787?]- Books
Proteus redivivus, or, The art of wheedling or insinuation : obtain'd by general conversation, and extracted from the several humours, inclinations, and passions of both sexes, respecting their several ages, and suiting each profession or occupation / Collected and methodized by the author of the first part of the English rogue.
Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?Date: 1675- Pictures
A greedy medical practitioner demanding a section of bread or cake (?) for payment from a poor family. Stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1784, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1 June 1784Reference: 20795i- Books
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The quacks: or, Love's the Physician. A farce. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by his Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Owen Mac Swiny.
Swinny, Owen Mac, approximately 1675-1754.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Pictures
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A greedy medical practitioner demanding a section of bread or cake (?) for payment from a poor family. Colour stipple engraving by J. Baldrey, 1784, after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1 June 1784Reference: 20806i- Books
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Medicina magica tamen physica: = magical, but natural physick. Or A methodical tractate of diastatical physick. : Containing the general cures of all infirmities: and of the most radical, fixed, and malignant diseases belonging, not only to the body of man, but to all other animal and domestick creatures whatsoever, and that by way of transplantation. With a description of a most excellent cordial out of gold, much to be estimated. / Published by Samuel Boulton, Salop.
Boulton, Samuel.Date: 1656- Books
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An historiall expostulation: against beastlye abusers, both of chyrurgerie the [sic] and physyke, in oure tyme: : with a goodlye doctrine and instruction, necessarye to be marked and folowed, of all true chirurgiens: / By John Halle, chyrurgyen. Edited by T.J. Pettigrew.
Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-1568 or 1569.Date: M.DCCC.XLIV. [1844]- Books
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Morisoniana, or Family advisor of the British College of Health : being a collection of the works of Mr Morison, the hygeist ; comprising 'Origin of life, and true cause of diseases explained' - 'Important advice to the world' - 'Letter on cholera morbus of India’ – ‘Anti-Lancet’ in six numbers – and ‘more new truths’. Forming a complete manual for individuals and families, for every thing that regards preserving them in health and curing their diseases. The whole tried and proved by the members of the British College of Health, as the only true theory and practice of medicine ; and thus furnishing ample testimony that the old medical science is completely wrong. With an appendix, containing numerous well-authenticated cures, and other interesting matter.
Morison, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1829- Books
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Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates gift of healing examined : upon occasion of a sad effect of his stroaking, March the 7, 1665, at one Mr. Cressets house in Charter-house-yard : in a letter to a reverend divine, living near that place.
Lloyd, David, 1635-1692Date: 1666- 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- Books
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There is lately come to London, an Italian doctor, who never was any stage-quack or mountebank, who had ben very successfull in the speedy cures of these following distempers, viz.
Date: [between 1660 and 1685]- Books
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The True characters of, Viz. A deceitful petty fogger, vulgarly call'd attorney. A know-all astrological quack, or, Feigned physician. A female hypocrite, or, Devil in disguise. A low-churchman, or, Ecclesiastical bisarius. A trimmer, or, Jack of all sides, &c.
Date: 1708- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor in England selling his wares inside a country inn. Coloured etching by T. Illman.
Date: [1820?]Reference: 20932i- Books
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The second part, of the London clubs; containing, the No-Nose Club, the Beaus Club, the Farting Club, the Sodomites, or Mollies Club. The Quacks Club, by the author of The London spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: [1709?]- Archives and manuscripts
Lettsom, John Coakley (1744-1815), Physician
Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.Date: 1766-1812Reference: MSS.3245-3249, 5370 and 8684- Books
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Bevvare of pick-purses. Or a caueat for sick folkes to take heede of vnlearned phisitions, and vnskilfull chyrurgians. By F.H. Doctor in Phisick.
Oberndorf, JohannDate: 1605- Pictures
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A rustic blacksmith turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an anxious woman patient, her husband observes the situation. Mezzotint by J. Wilson after J. Harris the elder.
Harris, John, the elder, -1834.Reference: 16507i