Crossword clues for quackery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from quack (n.) + -ery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal medicine uncountable English) The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud. 2 (context countable English) An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
WordNet
n. medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings [syn: empiricism]
the dishonesty of a charlatan [syn: charlatanism]
Wikipedia
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 possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term , from a "hawker of salve". In the Middle Ages the term quack meant "shouting". The quacksalvers sold their wares on the market shouting in a loud voice.
Common elements of general quackery include questionable diagnoses using questionable diagnostic tests, as well as alternative or refuted treatments, especially for serious diseases such as cancer. Quackery is often described as "health fraud" with the salient characteristic of aggressive promotion.
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.