226 results filtered with: Quacks and quackery
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
Helmbreker, Dirk, 1633-1696.Reference: 20514i- Books
Suite de la description des maladies veneriennes : ou l'on prouve l'insuffisance des fumigations, avec un traité sur les maladies appellées fleurs-blanches. Et une réponse à la critique de M. Astruc / Par M. [Roger] Dibon.
Dibon, Roger, 1687-1777.Date: 1741- Books
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More secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. (Secret remedies, 2nd series).
British Medical Association.Date: 1912- Books
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Business methods of specialists, or, How the advertising doctor succeeds : an exposition of the inside workings of the complicated structure the advertising specialist has built about himself, the doors of which are seldom open to the professional investigator / by Jacob Dissinger Albright.
Albright, Jacob Dissinger, 1870-Date: 1907- Digital Images
A quack in the right place, or what we should like to see.
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James Bower Harrison Popular Medical Errors, addenda
Harrison, James Bower, FRCS (d. 1890)Date: c. 1852-1881Reference: MS.8482- Pictures
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In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Reference: 38359i- Pictures
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A medicine show; a moustachioed charlatan holds up a phial, a miserable patient sits in the carriage and a black man in uniform bangs the drums. Coloured lithograph by G. Frison.
Frison, Gustave, 1850-Reference: 16870i- Books
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Revelations of quacks and quackery / a series of letters by 'Detector'.
Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886.Date: 1885- Books
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A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long.
Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.Date: 1834- Pictures
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Two angry medical practitioners arguing about opposing methods in front of a gouty (?) patient. Coloured engraving, 1787.
Date: 1 August 1787Reference: 20875i- Pictures
Glysterpipe Fillpacket, Peregrino Mountebanko and Timothy Mouth: three dwarfs as itinerant medicine vendors selling their wares. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 20659i- Books
Suite de la description des maladies veneriennes : ouvrage dans lequel on traite des retentions dùrine et en general des maladies de lùrethre / Par M. [Roger] Dibon.
Dibon, Roger, 1687-1777.Date: [1748]- Archives and manuscripts
M0006836: Charlatan doctor on horse-back
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/58/9Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 4.
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The funny side of physic, or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries / by A. D. Crabtre, M. D.
Crabtre, Addison Darre.Date: 1874- Books
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The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country.
D. G.Date: [1725?]- Books
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Quacks and grafters / by Ex-osteopath; being an exposé of the state of therapeutics at the present time, with some reasons why such grafters flourish, and suggestions to remedy the deplorable muddle.
Date: 1908- Pictures
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A quack doctor selling his remedies on the streets of London - despite objections. Wood engraving by E.L. Sambourne, 1893.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1893Reference: 14302i- Books
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An historiall expostulation against the beastlye abusers, both of chyrurgerie 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: 1844- Pictures
Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with assistants at Covent Garden, London. Etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.
Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.Date: 1 April 1792Reference: 20577i- Pictures
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An audience of people throwing handkerchiefs (containing money?) onto a stage where an itinerant medicine vendor has been successfully selling his wares. Engraving.
Reference: 20530i- Ephemera
George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.
Jones, George, of Hatton Garden.Date: [1675?]- Pictures
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A bear wearing a hat and a cloak, selling pills to a group of country folk in Leipzig. Watercolour.
Reference: 11209i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor on stage promoting his wares with the aid of a guitarist to an amused audience. Colour soft-ground etching by W.W. Ryland, 1773, after F. Albani, 164-.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1773Reference: 20452i