What NOT to do--Do not give opiates, astringents, chalk, or any quack medicine whatever.
There is one favourite quack powder, which is composed principally of large doses of calomel, and which is quite as likely to destroy the patient as the worms!
Lectures" are delivered with the design of furnishing patients to the quack practitioners in whose interest the place is run.
The quack advertisements and pamphlets are the source of incalculable evils to youths between the ages of seventeen and thirty.
In cases of indiscretion, the quack treatment is always with mercury--notwithstanding denials.
If no pay is asked for the "stuff," the quack is seldom or ever a loser.
It has always been the dearest wish of a quack doctor to possess a diploma of some sort, no matter where or how dishonestly procured.
This essential information obtained, the quack at once sets his moral rack to work.
Glibly the quackdiscourses on the consequences of neglecting the terrible symptoms, and the great difficulty of combating them.
We all know that "fools are the game that knaves pursue," and no well-informed member of the community needs to be informed that the victims captured by quackadvertisements are not among the wiser portion of the community.
The quack is equally ready to take the case in hand, and the only stumbling-block likely to be in the way, may be the patients' inability to pay the large fee demanded.
Nemorino attributes his sudden popularity to the elixir, and even the quack himself is surprised at the remarkable change in his customer.
Dulcamara begs of him some charm that will make Adina love him; but as he has no money the quack refuses to assist him.
It was full of patent capsule remedies that he had gleaned out of his home medical book--a cut thumb, a surprise headache, or a siege of gas on the stomach would never catch the Quack unprepared!
Only the Quack refused, turning green at the thought of all the alien bacteria that might be swimming around in the pitcher.
The Quack is our only hope," Captain Corelli said, and groaned at the thought.
Everybody got quiet for a couple of minutes, and in the silence the Quack surprised us all by deciding to speak up.
And then the four of us were on our feet and dashing for open country, leaving the Quack and the remaining Haslop staring after us.
A formula invented by ancient Terran bartenders, and not recommended except in extreme cases," the Quack said.
But Gaffa didn't know how simple theQuack could be, nor how preoccupied with his own physiology he was.
Gibbons and Corelli and I ganged them one at a time--the Quack refused to help for fear of being contaminated--and examined them carefully.
The Haslop who stayed looked puzzled, I thought, but the Quack only seemed interested and very much entertained.
Captain Corelli, who was on the point of calling the Quack at the ship, took his thumb off the mike button and grabbed for his own weapon.
Later on we had to admit that the Quack had actually done us a service, since his identifying the real Haslop saved us from being marooned for life on Balak.
None of us actually saw the sun rise, though, except the Quack and the bogus Haslop.
Then come notes at school, picture cards, comic weeklies, quack advertisements, and unwholesome vaudeville acts.
In this connection, boys should be warned against quack doctors; also against their advertisements which are often worded to scare the ignorant.
THE QUACK FROG THERE was once a Frog who made proclamation that he was a learned physician, able to heal all diseases.
The breakfast food magnate came directly toward the high, locked desk belonging to the dead and gone physician, who had been a kind friend and patron of this quack medicine man when he was a boy.
Mr. Colesworth listened to his supposedly scientific jargon with a quiet smile; the geologist plainly sized up Professor Spink for the quack he was.
Instead of 'dumb Prophet struggling to speak,' we have a portentous mixture of the Quack withal!
Of course, I don't presume to assert that your faith is a quack nostrum; only real Art and Religion won't run in double harness for you or anybody.
An overpowering desire to quack like a duck was met and mastered in the same fashion.
The worst weed in modern civilization, the ready tool of the quackand the hindrance of the self-respecting man!
The fellow may quack or croak or crow for aught I care.
But the quack came out of time, I suppose, for his throat got filled with water, as the hurdle carried him back again.
The quack bootmaker is considerable; as corn-cutters can testify, and desperate men reduced to buckskin and list-shoes.
The Quack shall be legitimate inevitable King of you; no earthly machinery able to exclude the Quack.
What a queer old bird, with his whole wisdom of man packed up small for ready use, like a quack doctor," he said, as soon as they were out of hearing.
That Wenham is as dull a quack as ever quacked: and you see the carriage in which he drove to dinner.
You speak eagerly enough in your leading articles when you espy a false argument in an opponent, or detect a quack in the House.
She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with "hell following after.
She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.
Having no means with which to take trips to the mountain or sea shore, they grasp at every quack medicine or institute that offers hope of recovery.
In this he was aided by the newspapers, who did not wish to lose this princely revenue from quack doctors.
The quack knows this, hence his use of the religious press in which to exploit the virtues of his medicines.
The main guy of every medical quack office is the "case taker.
This sum, paid to but one paper, will give the reader some idea of the vast expense to which the quack is put to place his name before the public in his effort to rob the blind.
One thing is certain--no one ever acquired the habit by reading one of these "scare" or quack books.
The plan of Hereford was that of the political quack who pretends to have a specific for every disease by which the constitution is affected.
The king being already married, difficulties arose, but it was proposed to poison Lady Anne, which, as quack medicines had not been yet invented, was a somewhat difficult process.
James was completely taken aback at the news of what had occurred, and tried to get up a little bit of popularity by turning quack doctor and running about in all directions to touch people for tne king's evil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
