| quack |
A fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
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| quack |
(1) A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. / Some quacks in the art of teaching, pretend to make young gentlemen masters of the languages, before they can be masters of common sense. Felton, On the Classicks. (2) A vain boastful pretender to physick; one who proclaims his own medical abilities in publick places. (3) An artful tricking practitioner in physick. Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, /and vile attorneys, now an useless race. Pope.
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| quacksalver |
one claiming special merit for treatment with medications and salves.
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