Quack
or Quack Doctor; once called quack-salver. A
puffer of salves. (Swedish, qvak-salfearë; Norwegian, qvak-salver; German, quacksalber.)
“Saltimbancoes, quacksalvers, and charlatans deceive the vulgar.” —Sir Thomas Browne.
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