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Quackery

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Medicine
Impostors and imposture
Swindlers and swindling

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Images from the collections

Images about Quackery

333 images from works
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Three despairing women, one of whom looks disapprovingly at three quack medicine vendors concocting a mixture; representing Britain's economic depletion and distress at the hands of her politicians. Etching by W. Heath, 1830.
  • Morison's Pills : the wonderful power of the pills exemplified showing the same person before and after having taken a dose : dedicated with profound respect to all true disciples of Esculapius, more especially to the Royal College of Physicians / by Pilula Rhubarbus, M.D., Professor of Phlebotomy to the Royal Islington abattoirs : sung by Mr. Fitzwilliam.
  • A well groomed itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares from a smart carriage. Steel engraving by K. Schüler (?) after F. Piloty.
  • Oversize ephemera : Medical songs 3.
  • Patients consulting an obese quack. Watercolour painting by T. Rowlandson, 1807.
  • Advertisement : Here is lately arrived a doctor of physick, who by his long study and experience, both at home and in foreign countries, has acquir'd as learned and safe a method in curing all diseases incident to humane bodies ... as the nature of the distemper will permit.
  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • An itinerant vendor advertising his 'sales show' in a square of town. Wood engraving after F. Gilbert.
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Works from the collections

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    An itinerant medicine vendor and his assistants being pelted off stage with stones from an angry audience. Engraving by C.F. Stoelzel, 1798, after J. Schenau.

    Johann Eleazar Zeissig | Date: 1798 | Reference: 20882i
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    People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.

    John Franklin | Reference: 6924i
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    Het Amazonenleger : irreguliere genezeressen in Nederland, 1850-1930 / Willem de Blécourt.

    Willem de Blécourt | Date: [1999], ©1999
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    A propósito de "El Baldaet" : curanderismo y asistencia ante la enfermedad / Enrique Perdiguero.

    Enrique Perdiguero Gil | Date: 1992
    • Books

    Il medico saltimbanco : vita e avventure di Buonafede Vitali, giramondo instancabile, chimico di talento, istrione di buona creanza / Giorgio Cosmacini.

    Giorgio Cosmacini | Date: 2008
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Related topics

Selling - Drugs
Direct selling
Costume
Nostrums
Traveling sales personnel
Audiences
United States
Physicians
Performing arts
History, 19th Century

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