quacksalvers

Unfortunately, this law means that as long as the quacksalvers never claim to be practicing medicine, as such, they can not be held responsible.

Samuel Johnson on Quackery Jack of Kent 2009

"Where are my physicians, my quacksalvers?" he roared with pain.

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

There are quacksalvers who will sell you anything.

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

No, thank you; I don't betray professional secrets to quacksalvers.

The Wild Duck 1884

In spite of the fact that everyone and anyone seemed to be permitted, and was considered fitted to prescribe medicine, the colonists were sharp enough on the venders of quack medicines -- or, perhaps I should say, of powerless medicines -- on "runnagate chyrurgeons and physickemongers, saltimbancoes, quacksalvers, charlatans, and all impostourous empiricks."

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Every vigourous political party which is subversive in its aims is predestined to become for a time an exercise ground for all sorts of innovators and quacksalvers, for persons who wish to cure the ills of travailing humanity by the use of their chosen specifics, employed exclusively in smaller or larger doses -- the substitution of friction with oil for washing with soap and water, the wearing of all-wool underclothing, vegetarianism, Christian science, neomalthusianism, and other fantasies.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

(for you will find that money is the primum mobile) and they will turn you thus out of some £300,000 or £400,000: a pretty sum for urns and balls, for boxes and pills, which these same quacksalvers are to administer to the parishes; and for what disease I marvel!

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

And what concerns those who advocate rubbing your knee with salves ... permit me to say ... these quacksalvers have not cured Your Majesty ... "

Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

"This week the Queen rests in her progress with your neighbor, the Earl, and the town will be crowded with mummers and players, grooms, cutpurses, quacksalvers, and cockatrices, travellers and courtiers whom the north wind hath nipped!

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903