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quacksalver
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quacksalver \Quack"sal*ver\, n. [D. kwakzalver; cf. kwakzalven
to quack or boast of one's salves. See Quack, Salve, n.]
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of
the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a
mountebank. [Obs.]
--Burton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s; see quack (n.1).
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc. supposedly having curative powers.
Usage examples of "quacksalver".
Why should we Talents protect a quacksalver, a faker, a pharisee, a hoaxer, a gyp!
And there was that quacksalver Mellowes again, with his pernicious theory that consumption was caused by an excess of oxygen.
I could obey, but I can see that title is neither appropriate nor adequate, for any quacksalver with a jar of leeches considers himself a doctor.
All around them tumblers tumbled, musicians tootled and squeaked, and troupes of players, jugglers, wrestlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, cutpurses, prostitutes, quacksalvers, thimbleriggers, blagueurs, and the like went energetically and often noisily about their work.