This nation is fond of quackery of all sorts; and this particular quackery having been sanctioned by King, Lords and Commons, it spread over the country like a pestilence borne by the winds.
Was the quackery exploded, and were the granters of the twenty thousand pounds ashamed of what they had done?
Simpson) that we chiefly owe the infinitely more dangerous and disgusting quackery in midwifery, which rages like a pestilence in London, and in every town and village throughout the empire, and in some of our most distant colonies.
We do most heartily believe that if, unbiassed by the self-interested and fraudulent assertions of quackery and empiricism, you would exert your own reasoning powers on the question, the doom of this abuse would soon be sealed.
Holmes gives in this volume, they would force physicians to be less hypocritical in their management of them when they are ill, and they would destroy the wide-spread evil of quackery under which the world now groans.
His science, his ingenuity, and his impudence once more practised on the credulity of the public, with the innocent quackery of attributing all medicinal virtues to British herbs.
Inquiry will probably show that he has a record for quackery and has probably sailed fairly close to the wind at times.
I daresay his quackery has made him a close observer.
The mischief ofquackery is negative, as well as positive.
Quackery may be found, in every vocation, from the humblest, to the holiest.
Clearly this piece of quackery succeeded, because the quack had "fund a fule.
Whatever the field of quackery may be, the dupe must ever be the same.
In the feudal ages medicine and quackery were the same, as far as any principles of science are concerned.
The articles devoted to “patent medicines” or quackery being naturally of greater interest to the general public than to the medical profession, the number of inquiries from laymen regarding various quacks and nostrums has steadily increased.
It was a deadly mistake to suppose that anything which was all quackery would be a success--a permanent success, at all events; it was a deadlier mistake still to suppose that anything quite devoid of quackery could pay handsomely.
Though he was a schoolmaster he was no recluse, and he had marked the ways of the world from his quiet study in Lupton; hence he understood the immense value of a grain of quackery in all schemes which are meant to appeal to mortals.
The great success of quacks in England has been altogether owing to the real quackery of the regular physicians.
He is a flickering taper under a bushel; and this, billah, were better than the pissasphaltum-souls which bushels ofquackery and pretence can not hide.
If they are imaginary, there is too much in this Book against quackery to daunt us.
It was in reply to a correspondent who had "jumped onto" the editor of a popular magazine because in exposing graft and quackery he had necessarily implicated a certain brand of medical practitioners.
This editor, a bright and capable man, wrote me a nice letter in reply, in which he agreed with me about quackery and incompetency in our profession.
But that quackery and graft are rampant among those who pose as healers has become so apparent that we believe every influence to expose and weed out the pretenders is timely.
No power but that of a public conscience awakened to the prevalence of quackery and grafting in connection with doctoring can clear away the accumulated filth.
What more loathsome than the swaggering quackery of some present holders of the hammer?
These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science.
Against all such socialquackery the obvious injunction to the quacks is, to mind their own business.
Denounced that which I held, in common with most men of sense in or out of my profession, to be one of those illusions by which quackery draws profit from the wonder of ignorance.
The Rainey “Vitaline” quackerywas exposed in The Journal, Oct.
Garbling quotations, distorting statements, separating phrases from their contexts and omitting qualifying clauses, all for the purpose of making out a case for some proprietary remedy is a trick as old as quackery itself.
You practise a bit of quackery now and then as a diversion, don't you?
But do tell me, has our excellent Spitta once more made some public application of his quackery for the healing of the so-called sins of the social order?
He assailed quackerywith much boldness; hence his mistake as to Joanna Southcote was made the most of.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quackery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: humbug; hypocrisy; imposture
