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An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.
Reference: 11822i
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Remarks on physicians, surgeons, druggists, and quacks : addressed to members of Parliament, the medical profession, and the people of Great Britain / by Surgeon Snipe.
Date: 1845
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M0006679: Portrait of William Atkins (fl. 17th century)
Date: 2 April 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/56/53
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.
Reference: 20922i
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Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates [sic] 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 ... / [David Lloyd].
David LloydDate: 1666
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The arraignment of vrines : vvherein are set downe the manifold errors and abuses of ignorant vrine-mongring empirickes, cozening quacksaluers, women-physitians, and the like stuffe ... Collected and gathered as well out of the most ancient, as the moderne and late physitians of our time: and written first in the Latine tongue, and diuided into three bookes by Peter Forrest D. in Physicke ... And for the benefit of our British nations newly epitomized, and translated into our English tongue by Iames Hart Dr. of the foresaid faculty, and residing in the towne of Northampton.
Pieter van ForeestDate: 1623
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An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines; : wherein the objections hitherto made against them are fully answered, and their virtues set forth in a proper light. / By a country gentleman, formerly a practitioner in the science of physic.
Date: [1773?]
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Infallible physic / [Charles Dickens].
Charles DickensDate: [1860]
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Die Quacksalber / Petra Schramm.
Schramm, PetraDate: [1985], ©1985
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W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: June 22nd 1889Reference: 13793i
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The language of quackery in England, 1660-1800 / Roy Porter.
Roy PorterDate: 1987
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'Tutti i modi che adoprano i ceretani per far bezzi' : towards a database of Italian charlatans / David Gentilcore.
David GentilcoreDate: 1995-
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The most popular agent / Drs. Starkey & Palen.
Drs. Starkey & Palen.Date: [1886?]
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Quack! : tales of medical fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices / by Bob McCoy.
McCoy, Bob, 1927-Date: [2000], ©2000
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Cures; the story of the cures that fail / by James J. Walsh.
James Joseph WalshDate: 1923
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Disinganno sul metodo purgativo di Leroy : e sia suggel ch'ogn'uomo sganni.
Date: 1825
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A quack in court / Thomas R. Forbes.
Thomas Rogers ForbesDate: 1981
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The quacks academy; or The dunce's directory : A new art to cross the old proverb, and make a man fool and physician both at a time. Discovering the several methods whereby so many ignorant pretenders obtain repute and practice. With allowance.
Date: MDCLXXVIII. [1678]
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Portrait of a quack / by Ernest W. Page.
Page, Ernest W.Date: 1939
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An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.
Philips WouwermanDate: 1743Reference: 20496i
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Doctors and their work, or, Medicine, quackery, and disease / by Robert Brudenell Carter.
Robert Brudenell CarterDate: 1903
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Die Geheimmittel- und Unsittlichkeits-Industrie in der Tagespresse / [H Beta].
Beta, H.Date: 1872
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From snake oil to medicine : pioneering public health / R. Alton Lee.
R. Alton LeeDate: 2007
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Quack, quack, quack : the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries / by William H. Helfand.
William H. HelfandDate: 2002
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Lorraine Clarke : nosce te ipsum : an exhibition exploring the link between magic, medicine and religion.
Clarke, LorraineDate: [2006]

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An affluent man receiving galvanic electric therapy from a French quack doctor, while staring intently out of the window. Coloured etching.

Remarks on physicians, surgeons, druggists, and quacks : addressed to members of Parliament, the medical profession, and the people of Great Britain / by Surgeon Snipe.

M0006679: Portrait of William Atkins (fl. 17th century)

An eccentric itinerant medicine vendor who collects old books, outside a bookshop. Etching.

Wonders no miracles, or, Mr. Valentine Greatrates [sic] 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 ... / [David Lloyd].

An essay in favour of such public remedies, as are usually distinguished by the name of quack medicines; : wherein the objections hitherto made against them are fully answered, and their virtues set forth in a proper light. / By a country gentleman, formerly a practitioner in the science of physic.

Infallible physic / [Charles Dickens].

Die Quacksalber / Petra Schramm.

W.E. Gladstone as a quack doctor selling remedies from his caravan; representing his advocacy of the Home Rule Bill in Parliament. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1889.

The language of quackery in England, 1660-1800 / Roy Porter.

'Tutti i modi che adoprano i ceretani per far bezzi' : towards a database of Italian charlatans / David Gentilcore.

The most popular agent / Drs. Starkey & Palen.

Quack! : tales of medical fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices / by Bob McCoy.

Cures; the story of the cures that fail / by James J. Walsh.

Disinganno sul metodo purgativo di Leroy : e sia suggel ch'ogn'uomo sganni.

A quack in court / Thomas R. Forbes.

The quacks academy; or The dunce's directory : A new art to cross the old proverb, and make a man fool and physician both at a time. Discovering the several methods whereby so many ignorant pretenders obtain repute and practice. With allowance.

Portrait of a quack / by Ernest W. Page.

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.

Doctors and their work, or, Medicine, quackery, and disease / by Robert Brudenell Carter.

Die Geheimmittel- und Unsittlichkeits-Industrie in der Tagespresse / [H Beta].

From snake oil to medicine : pioneering public health / R. Alton Lee.

Lorraine Clarke : nosce te ipsum : an exhibition exploring the link between magic, medicine and religion.