Quack+medicine
61nostrum — n. Quack medicine, patent medicine, arcanum …
62nostrum — n 1. patent medicine, proprietary; medication, drug, potion, Pharm. tincture, Pharm., Vet. Med. electuary; pill, Pharm., Vet. Med. bolus, capsule; liniment, lotion, embrocation, balm, balsam, ointment. 2. quack medicine, Inf. pink pill, placebo;… …
63Waahoo — Waa*hoo (w[aum]*h[=oo] ), n. (Bot.) The burning bush; said to be called after a quack medicine made from it. [1913 Webster] …
64Induction coil — An induction coil or spark coil (archaically known as a Ruhmkorff coil) is a type of disruptive discharge coil. It is a type of electrical transformer used to produce high voltage pulses from a low voltage DC supply. To create the flux changes… …
65Chapeaugraphy — Chapeaugraphy, occasionally anglicised to chapography, is a panhandling trick in which a ring shaped piece of felt is manipulated to look like various types of hats. The act originated in 1618 with Parisian street performer Tabarin, the most… …
66Misinformation — is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.[1] Makkai proposes the… …
67Radium and radon in the environment — This is a subpage of Environmental radioactivity. Radium Radium in quack medicine See the story of Eben Byers for details of one very nasty case which involved a product called Radithor which contained 1 mCi (40 MBq) of 226Ra and 1 mCi of 228Ra… …
68Priory of Sion — The Prieuré de Sion , translated from French as Priory of Sion, is the name of multiple groups, both real and fictitious. One is a fringe fraternal organization, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard. In the 1960s, Plantard… …
69Damian Thompson — (born 1962) is a British journalist, author and blogger. Thompson was educated at Presentation College, Reading, and read history at Mansfield College, Oxford University. He received his Ph.D in the sociology of religion from the London School of …
70Dewar Report — 1912 marks the publication of the Report of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service Committee or the Dewar Report,[1] named after its chair, Sir John Dewar. The report presented a vivid description of the social landscape of the time and… …
