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a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills or knowledge. UK informal often disapproving. a doctor: Have you seen a quack about that cough?
The few effective remedies sold by quacks included emetics, laxatives and diuretics. Some ingredients did have medicinal effects: mercury , silver and arsenic compounds may have helped some infections and infestations; willow bark contains salicylic acid , chemically closely related to aspirin ; and the quinine contained in Jesuit's bark was an ...
1. : charlatan sense 2. Religious quacks on radio and television thinking up new ways to take money from ignorant listeners and incidentally from legitimate churches. Andrew A. Rooney. 2. : an ignorant, misinformed, or dishonest practitioner of medicine.
quack. 1. / kwæk / noun. an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills. ( as modifier ) a quack doctor. informal. a doctor; physician or surgeon.
Jan 23, 2013 · Quack, in the sense of a medical impostor, is a shortening of the old Dutch quacksalver (spelled kwakzalver in the modern Dutch), which originally meant a person who cures with home remedies,...
Apr 29, 2020 · Medical quackery is loosely defined as the practice of palming off falsehoods as medical fact. It not always done for the purpose of financial gain but often to concoct or contort fact simply to suit one's own personal beliefs or pretensions. ATU Images / Getty Images. Tell-Tale Signs of Medical Quackery.
Dec 15, 2020 · The term quack originates from quacksalver, or kwakzalver, a Dutch word for a seller of nostrums, medical cures of dubious and secretive origins. (Nostrums were the over-the-counter medications of the early modern world, available without a doctor’s prescription and taken at one’s own risk.)
Oct 10, 2024 · quackery, the characteristic practice of quacks or charlatans, who pretend to knowledge and skill that they do not possess, particularly in medicine. The quack makes exaggerated claims about his or her ability to heal disease, generally for financial gain.
1. disapproving : an unskillful doctor or a person who falsely claims to have medical skills. That quack almost killed me by prescribing the wrong medication. Her doctor turned out to be a real quack. 2. British — used in usually a negative or humorous way to refer to a doctor. a visit to the quack. — compare 2 quack.
Definition of quack noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
