- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
-
explicitly remarks on the "worthless goings-on" by "a
whole army of
quacksalvers"
concerning Asia and
especially Tibet. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler...
-
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...
- "A True
Discovery of the
Empericke with the
Fugitive Physition and
Quacksalver, who
Display their Banners upon Posts."
Title page,
published 1617...
- 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...
-
approach began to
dominate (Descartes
himself described Kircher as "more
quacksalver than savant").
Kircher was
largely neglected until the late 20th century...
