empyric

I will recommend a physician -- an empyric who is devoted to me -- to the illustrious Cardinal, who has been given over by the most scientific in Paris.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

But generally these shifts to postpone the period of exhaustion fail, for they are merely the efforts of the empyric.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

I will recommend a physician -- an empyric who is devoted to me -- to the illustrious Cardinal, who has been given over by the most scientific in Paris.

Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830

Where scrophulous ulcers about the neck are difficult to heal, Dr. Beddoes was informed, in Ireland, that an empyric had had some success by inflaming them by an application of wood sorrel, oxalis acetosella, the leaves of which are bruised in a mortar, and applied on the ulcers for two or three days, and then some more lenient application is used.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Whereas I saw some patients couched by depression many years ago by a then celebrated empyric, Chevalier Taylor, who were not confined above

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The probe of an unskilful empyric sometimes does more harm in the loose cellular membrane of these parts than the original ulcer, by making a fistula he did not find.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

In a word, the miser's stock was also lost, the empyric himself, and the daughter reduced to beggary.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Lord Roscommon's intended retreat into Italy, already mentioned, on account of the troubles in James the IId's reign, was prevented by the gout, of which he was so impatient, that he admitted a repellent application from a French empyric, by which his distemper was driven up into his bowels, and put an end to his life, in 1684.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Mrs. Thomas's eyes were now sufficiently opened to discern the imposture, and, with a very serene countenance, told the empyric, that accidents will happen, but means might be fallen upon to repair this fatal disappointment.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

Lord Roscommon's intended retreat into Italy, already mentioned, on account of the troubles in James the IId's reign, was prevented by the gout, of which he was so impatient, that he admitted a repellent application from a French empyric, by which his distemper was driven up into his bowels, and put an end to his life, in 1684.

The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II Theophilus Cibber 1730