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quackery
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Quackery is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices . A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Most medical practices were based on a fearful quackery , and most of the doctors were butchers or cranks. ▪ Neither the accepted medical help, nor the quackery were of much use, for poor Louisa died early the following morning. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from quack (n.) + -ery .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quackery \Quack"er*y\, n.; pl. Quackeries . The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. --Carlyle.
Usage examples of quackery.
Pliny, inspired with as truly Roman horror of quackery as the elder Cato,--who declared that the Greek doctors had sworn to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife to death, notwithstanding,--Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.
If they had given the matter proper consideration, they would have given me leave to follow my own inclinations, and I would have been a physician--a profession in which quackery is of still greater avail than in the legal business.
And the public itself, long plagued to the point of surliness by educational quackery and soaring school costs, would probably be quick in making Thorling School a sacrificial goat.
Numerology, however, lends itself to quackery, and one 90 should only go to a numerologist who has an established reputation because some of the back-street practitioners merely want your money, they do not want to help you as well.
Pliny, inspired with as truly Roman horror of quackery as the elder Cato,--who declared that the Greek doctors had sworn to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife to death, notwithstanding,--Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.
To dream of coaxing shy fecundity To an unlikely freak by physicking With superstitious drugs and quackeries That work you harm, not good.
He, Naphta, stated this, in order to counter the arrogance of materialistic science, which gave out for absolute knowledge its astronomical quackery, its windbaggery about the universe.
But it is not easy to name an age that has cherished more delusions than ours, or been more superstitious, or more credulous, more eager to run after quackery.
Dr Rahmat's case seemed to follow me around that day, °r, glancing across die restaurant, I spotted the large, muscular d jovial figure of Dr Tim Cogger, lunching profusely with someone I recognized as the fellow with the brief-case, who ad apparently been trying to flog his pills and potions around i79 the quackery.
I the11 knew nothing of the dramatic event of Ae morning, but by the evening it was certainly service with a ile down at the local quackery.