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The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, derived from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve" [3] or rather somebody who boasted about their salves, more commonly known as ointments. [4] In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares at markets by shouting to gain attention. [5]
Metallic Tractors.Caricature of a quack treating a patient with Perkins Patent Tractors by James Gillray, 1801 Modern facsimiles of Perkins tractors. Elisha Perkins (January 16, 1741 – September 6, 1799) was an American physician who created a fraudulent medical device, the Perkins Patent Tractors. [1]
John St. John Long (1798–July 2, 1834) [1] was an Irish-born quack doctor who claimed to be able to cure tuberculosis. In two instances, he was tried for manslaughter of his patients. In the first case, he was found guilty and fined £250, and in the second case acquitted.
James Graham, son of a saddler, was born on 23 June 1745 in Edinburgh, where he trained in medicine, but left medical school without taking a degree.Probably with the help of William Buchan, future author of the best-seller Domestic Medicine, Graham set up as an apothecary in Doncaster, Yorkshire, and in 1764 he married Mary Pickering of Ackworth.
James Morison married twice, firstly to Anne Victoire de La Marre, Baroness of Remiremont.They had three daughters (Anna Jacquette Morison, Catherine Morison and Caroline Morison) and two sons, who were Capt. Alexander Morison of Larghan (later the 8th Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy) and John Morison (later the 9th Baron of Bognie and Mountblairy). [6]
Advertisement for Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment. While showmen pitching miraculous cures have been around since classical times, [2] the advent of mixed performance and medicine sales in western culture originated during the Dark Ages in Europe after circuses and theatres were banned and performers had only the marketplace or patrons for support. [2]
Franz Anton Maulbertsch's The Quack (c. 1785) shows barber surgeons at work. Bloodletting set of a barber surgeon, beginning of 19th century, Märkisches Museum Berlin. The barber surgeon was one of the most common European medical practitioners of the Middle Ages, generally charged with caring for soldiers during and after battle.
John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was an American quack doctor, broadcaster, marketer and independent politician.He had no accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a diploma mill.