Of course not, for the quacksfollow in the footsteps of their prototypes, the regular veterinary surgeons.
Quacks have in all ages found staunch supporters amongst the powerful and affluent.
The directions go on to advise loquacity and impudence, qualities which quacks of all times and kinds have found most useful.
Quacks without art may either blind or kill, But demonstration proves that mine is skill.
The quacks who merit severe punishment the least of all their order are those who, while they profess to exercise a powerful influence over the bodies of their patients, leave nature to pursue her operations pretty much in her own way.
The close of the seventeenth century was not in respect of its quacks behind the few preceding generations.
Pre-eminent amongst the advertising quacks of the day was Dr.
And as the physicians gave this as their opinion wherever they came, the quacks got little business.
A book which treats wisely and delicately of very important subjects, and subjects which ought to be treated by competent hands, instead of being left to quacks and the venders of nostrums.
Hippocrates, when he ridiculed the quacks of his day, and collected the facts and phenomena of disease, and inferred from them the proper treatment of it, was as much the father of induction as Bacon himself.
He has an intuitive contempt for all quacks and pretenders.
The noise of two enraged quacks disputing in bad English, the harsh vulgar scream of the maid-servant, the table falling, and the pot boiling over, must produce a combination of sounds dreadful and dissonant to the ear.
As society thus bestows a reputation in a capricious manner, quacks will usurp one by their intrigues or by a barefaced impudence, which cannot claim the comparatively honourable denomination of proper pride and dignity.
The Romans called theirquacks Agyrtae, or Seplasiarii, from Seplasium, the generic name of aromatic substances.
And, methinks, it would be an acceptable Service to take them out of the Hands of Quacks and Pretenders, and to prevent their imposing upon themselves, by discovering to them the true Secret and Art of improving Beauty.
For centuries extraction of teeth had been and was considered a critical and dangerous operation, although itinerant quacks drew them without hesitation.
But he exhibits the same credulity in not doubting the miraculous virtues attributed by the quacks of his day to most remedies.
In other words, they want to occupy the place and receive the fees of the ousted Bone-setters, whose secrets they had appropriated, after covering them with approbrium as quacks and empirics.
The quack obtained more credit for a cure after the doctor had failed, than the doctor for a hundred cures in an ordinary course; and the Bone-setter, of all quacks was the one who did most to injure the reputation of the profession.
We can imagine the enormities committed by the quacks and imposters when we observe the methods of the legitimate practitioner.
Why, the insincere, unbelieving world is the natural property of the Quack, and of the Father of quacks and quackeries!
Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scepticism, simulacra and universal decadence, so abounds with Quacks as that Eighteenth!
Well, doctors and quacks and all sorts of people came and tried every kind of remedy, but all in vain.
A whole week went by and when the last of the quackshad come and gone, Danilo, disguised as an old physician, presented himself and craved audience with the Peerless one.
Physicians do not now deserve sympathy, if they are dumfounded when quacks and pretenders are successful where their own attempts at curing have failed.
Quacks in Medicine, quacks in Religion, and quacks in Politics know this and act upon that knowledge.
But quacks and charlatans were much in evidence, even in that remote epoch.
Cautions and Advice to the Public respecting some Abuses in Medicine, through the Malpractices of Quacks or Pretenders, by William Jackson.
He it was who originated all diseases, and by a singular contradiction, he likewise cured them, either directly or through the agency of the magicians and quacks who followed in his train.
Quacks abound like Locusts in Egypt, and too many have recommended themselves to a full Practice and profitable subsistence.
The ancient magicians, in their various methods of treating the sick, strove ever after sensational means of healing, and their example has been closely followed by the quacks of every succeeding age.
In medieval times, we are told, it was difficult to distinguish quacks from skilled practitioners, because the latter were inclined to be superstitious.
The injury thus received is purposely magnified tenfold for reasons of gain by quacks who work upon the fears of their victims for their own selfish purposes.
They became the magicians and quacks of the old world; and mankind owed them thenceforth nothing but evil.
When none but quacks offer their services to the State a selection must be made, and the people cannot be held to account for choosing quacks when there was nothing to choose from but quacks.
Statecraft, like the prescribing of medicine or the practice of law, is a profession, and the unlearned in their ways is at the mercy of the quacks of all three.
To the astrologers of the 17th century, the quacks and impostors of the beginning of the 19th are only equal.
Quacks again, according to their boldness and way of addressing (velvet and infallibility particularly) command success by striking the fancies of an audience.
In the reign of James I, a terrible sweep was made among the quacks and advertising gentry.
Nothing can be more evident than this in the Medical profession, though there are successful Quacks of all kinds, and in all situations, to be found in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
