Quack+medicine
21quack — v cackle, gaggle, clack, honk. n 1. pretender, impostor, masquerader, fake, Inf. faker, humbug; mountebank, charlatan, Inf. phony; hoaxer, cozener, trickster, cheat, swindler, Inf. shyster, sharper; slicker, spieler, knave, rogue, Inf. con man,… …
22quack — One who pretends to have more knowledge or skill in a science or profession, especially medicine, than he possesses in fact. An ignorant or fraudulent pretender to medical skill. Brinkley v Fishbein (CA5 Tex) 110 F2d 62. An incompetent physician …
23Patent medicine — E.W. Kemble s Death s Laboratory in Collier s in 1906 Patent medicine refers to medical compounds of questionable effectiveness sold under a variety of names and labels. The term patent medicine is somewhat of a misnomer because, in most cases,… …
24Osteopathic medicine in the United States — Andrew Taylor Still (founder) Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) Medicine · US Medical education Schools · Physicians Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine AOA · …
25practice of medicine — noun the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries he studied medicine at Harvard • Syn: ↑medicine • Derivationally related forms …
26Sequah Medicine Company — began in 1887 as the Sequah Medicine Co Ltd selling patent medicines such as prairie flower and Indian oil using traveling salesman, known as Sequahs. The traveling salesmen were quack doctors. One such example is Peter Alexander Gordon, who went …
27patent medicine — Synonyms and related words: balm, balsam, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, generic name, herbs, inhalant, lincture, linctus, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mixture, nonprescription drug …
28quacksalver — quack·sal·ver (kwak salґvər) [Dutch “salve peddlerâ€] one claiming special merit for treatment with medications and salves …
29Quackery — Quack redirects here. For other uses, see Quack (disambiguation). WPA poster, 1936 38 Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the promotion[1] of unproven or fraudulent medica …
30Nostrum — A worthless remedy. Nostrum is an example of a term that came from medicine, entered the world beyond medicine, fell into disuse in medicine, but is still used outside medicine. A nostrum was a medicine of secret composition recommended by the… …
