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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 ZeissigDate: 1798Reference: 20882i
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People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.
John FranklinReference: 6924i
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Het Amazonenleger : irreguliere genezeressen in Nederland, 1850-1930 / Willem de Blécourt.
Willem de BlécourtDate: [1999], ©1999
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A propósito de "El Baldaet" : curanderismo y asistencia ante la enfermedad / Enrique Perdiguero.
Enrique Perdiguero GilDate: 1992
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Il medico saltimbanco : vita e avventure di Buonafede Vitali, giramondo instancabile, chimico di talento, istrione di buona creanza / Giorgio Cosmacini.
Giorgio CosmaciniDate: 2008
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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, SamuelDate: 1656
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The golden age of quackery / [Stewart Hall Holbrook].
Stewart HolbrookDate: 1959
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The astrological physitian : Shewing, how to finde out the cause and nature of a disease, according to the secret rules of the art of astrology. Also generall rules and instructions, teaching how to discover what part of the body is afflicted. With a perfect description of the diseases and infirmities, signified by the planets, in any of the twelve zodiacall constellations, together with a most exact method, shewing how to finde whether the sick shall live or dye, according to naturall causes; with an exact way how to finde the true crysis, judiciall or criticall dayes. Being of excellent use for all such as study physick. / By Wil: Andrevvs student in the Mathematicks and Astrology.
Andrews, William, approximately 1635-1713Date: 1656
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Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de la jonglerie, dans lequel on démontre les phénomènes du mesmérisme / [Anon].
Noël RetzDate: 1784
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The unlicensed medical practitioner : a sketch from life.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]
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Oration before the Medical and Surgical Society of Baltimore : at its Fourth Anniversary Meeting, January 17, 1859 / by Lewis H. Steiner.
Lewis Henry SteinerDate: 1859
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An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.
Date: 1767Reference: 20721i
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An account of the proceedings at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th, 1838.
Provincial Medical and Surgical Association. MeetingDate: [1838]
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Die Affäre Hillmer : ein Okulist aus Berlin in Petersburg 1751 / Aloys Henning.
Henning, AloysDate: [1987], ©1987
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The justly far famed and highly celebrated Dr. von Isaac Slaukenbergius, high German, Hebrew-doctor ... takes this public method of announcing his arrival at the present period of the celebration of that renowned gala, the Guild at Preston.
Date: [between 1800 and 1838?]
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John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.
Reference: 20918i
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On the philosophy of medicine : on quackery, &c., being the last of a course of lectures delivered in the School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne / by R. M. Glover.
Robert Mortimer GloverDate: 1851
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Von Leichen, Scharlatanen und Studenten ... / Volker Klimpel.
Volker KlimpelDate: 1991
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Some remarks upon a publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society concerning Swaim's panacea.
Swaim, Wm. (William)Date: 1828
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Quacks, rogues and charlatans / Paul Strathern.
Strathern, Paul.Date: 2015
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A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
Abel FaivreDate: 22 March 1902Reference: 17152i
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The curious cures of old England / Nigel Cawthorne.
Nigel CawthorneDate: 2005
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Quacks and quack-medicines.
Date: [1839]
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'I think ye both quacks' : the controversy between Dr Theodor Myersbach and Dr John Coakley Lettsom / Roy Porter.
Roy Porter
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Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker.
Moschzisker, F. A. von (Franz Adolph)Date: 1860

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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.

People strolling and buying plague antidotes in old St Paul's Cathedral, London. Etching by J. Franklin.

Het Amazonenleger : irreguliere genezeressen in Nederland, 1850-1930 / Willem de Blécourt.

A propósito de "El Baldaet" : curanderismo y asistencia ante la enfermedad / Enrique Perdiguero.

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

The golden age of quackery / [Stewart Hall Holbrook].

Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de la jonglerie, dans lequel on démontre les phénomènes du mesmérisme / [Anon].

The unlicensed medical practitioner : a sketch from life.

Oration before the Medical and Surgical Society of Baltimore : at its Fourth Anniversary Meeting, January 17, 1859 / by Lewis H. Steiner.

An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage to an audience while his assistant draws a tooth from a man. Etching by Diebiey, 1767.

An account of the proceedings at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Bath, on Wednesday and Thursday, July 18th and 19th, 1838.

Die Affäre Hillmer : ein Okulist aus Berlin in Petersburg 1751 / Aloys Henning.

The justly far famed and highly celebrated Dr. von Isaac Slaukenbergius, high German, Hebrew-doctor ... takes this public method of announcing his arrival at the present period of the celebration of that renowned gala, the Guild at Preston.

John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.

On the philosophy of medicine : on quackery, &c., being the last of a course of lectures delivered in the School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne / by R. M. Glover.

Von Leichen, Scharlatanen und Studenten ... / Volker Klimpel.

Some remarks upon a publication by the Philadelphia Medical Society concerning Swaim's panacea.

Quacks, rogues and charlatans / Paul Strathern.

A quack claims he can cure a man in the three minutes before his train leaves. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

The curious cures of old England / Nigel Cawthorne.

Quacks and quack-medicines.

'I think ye both quacks' : the controversy between Dr Theodor Myersbach and Dr John Coakley Lettsom / Roy Porter.

Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker.