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- oil salesman". The term quack is a clipped form of the archaic term quacksalver, derived from Dutch: kwakzalver a "hawker of salve" or rather somebody...
- This Dog... Andy TV film 1970 The Borderers Hewie Heriot Episode: "The Quacksalver" Here Come the Double Deckers Nigel Parks Episode: "The Go-Carters" Menace...
- nitrous oxide led to its adoption by a number of less than re****ble quacksalvers, who touted it as a cure for consumption, scrofula, catarrh and other...
- approach began to dominate (Descartes himself described Kircher as "more quacksalver than savant"). Kircher was largely neglected until the late 20th century...
- Comedy pilot for Series 9 of the Comedy Playhouse 1970 The Borderers The Quacksalver BBC Two William Peck Series 2, Episode 7 1970 This Is Your Life Reg Varney...
- explicitly remarks on the "worthless goings-on" by "a whole army of quacksalvers" concerning Asia and especially Tibet. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler...
- in prayer, looking down 1635 B124 3 The pancake woman 1635 B129 1 The quacksalver 1635 B279 6 Jan Uytenbogaert, preacher of the Remonstrants [1557-1644]...
- still in the possession of his son Theodorus (1639–1704) under the name "Quacksalver". The painting was used around 1685 by an English engraver for a commercial...
- bridge of memories, the old Pont Neuf of Paris, was the rendezvous of quacksalvers and mountebanks. Booths for the sale of various articles lined the sides...
- time through the streets of London, that men might know where to find a quacksalver." In the summer of 1633, Fuller fell ill with an "infectious fever" that...