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quacks - definition and meaning
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noun quack .verb quack .
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A close sequence of quacks is the hen mallard distress signal.
The nunber two reason hunters walk out of the duck woods empty handed. 2009
A close sequence of quacks is the hen mallard distress signal.
The nunber two reason hunters walk out of the duck woods empty handed. 2009
That is science, but as for destroying the cancer bacillus they leave that to the physicians whom they call quacks for curing what the professors cannot cure.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 1856
"The consequence would be that, as now, anybody who pleases might practise; for the medical world is well aware that there is no power of preventing what they call quacks from practising.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
Other types of healers are considered to be at best harmless as long as they confine themselves to minor complaints; at worst, when naturopaths, hygienists, or homeopaths seek to treat serious disease conditions they are called quacks , accused of unlicensed practice of medicine and if they persist or develop a broad, successful, high-profile and
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
There are two kinds of charlatans or people called quacks to-day.
George Bernard Shaw 1905
A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks , thinking them heroes, and is not happy.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunky people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks , thinking them heroes, and is not happy.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
For years the makers of therapeutic magnets were called quacks and snake-oil salesmen.
Daily Kos 2009
Usborne reveals that surgical abortions in the Weimar years were not necessarily safer for women than those done by "quacks ": In 1921 an anonymous collection of cases from university maternity hospitals was published in which hundreds of women were said to have died from medical abortions performed by gynecologists under the 1917 guidelines.
The Road to Hitler Was Paved With Abortions Suzanne 2010
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