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• The Miraculous Conformist: or, An Account of Severall Marvailous Cures Performed by the Stroking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick, With a Physicall Discourse Thereupon (Oxford, UK: Printed by H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666), by Henry Stubbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and Divers of the Strange Cures by Him Lately Performed: Written by Himself In a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., Whereunto Are Annexed the Testimonials of Several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the Chief Matters of Fact Therein Related (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1666), by Valentine Greatrakes, contrib. by Robert Boyle
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• A new fairing for the merrily disposed:, or, The comical history of the famous Merry Andrew.: W. Phill---. ; Giving an account of his pleasant humours, various adventures, cheats, frolicks, & cunning designs both in city and country. (London : Printed by J. Wallis, and sold by most book-sellers, 1688), by William Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Jones of Hatton-Garden, his book of cures this book dated April the eighteenth, 1673. ([London : s.n., 1673]), by of Hatton-Garden Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Jones of Hatton-Garden, two doors from the sign of the New-Hole in the Wall, his book of cures ([London : s.n., 1674?]), by of Hatton-Garden Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia: In Qua Maxima Improborum et Indoctorum Turba Sub Dio Enudatur, Quos aut Subdola Pietatis Pelle Velatos, aut Insolenti Scientiae Fumo Seu Fuco Obductos, Vel Irreligio Mera, Vel Rapax Avaritia Omnes Ultra Impudentes ad Medicinae Praxin Egit Praecipites (in Latin; London: Excudebat Aug. Matheus, 1624), by Peter Bowne (page images at NIH)
• A short discouerie of the vnobserued dangers of seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie: by Iohn Cotta of Northampton Doctor in Physicke. (London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for William Iones, and Richard Boyle dwelling in the Blacke-Friers, 1612), by John Cotta (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mrs. Sarah Bradmores prophecy of the wonders that will happen, anno Dom. 1687 Also what will be the effects of the whales comeing up the river of Thames, and continued the 4th. and 5th. of August, anno Dom. 1686. (London : printed by S.J., 1686), by Sarah Bradmore (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A character of a true physician, or, A true chymist compared with a goose-quill pedant with a short view of the frauds and abuses in physick, committed by the confederate prescribing doctoral methodists, with their combinators the apothecaries ... : being a vindication of such physicians as follow not their method but make and administer their own medicines, being the honestest, safest, cheapest, and speediest way of practice, both for physician and patient / by R. Fletcher ... (London : Printed for the author, 1676), by R. Fletcher (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The fool and the knave uncas'd or A true narrative of the abominable cheats of Vincent & Collins, two Domincan friers [sic] living in London. ([London? : s.n.], Printed in the year 1678) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Fake Medical Devices: An FDA Report (for release at Second National Congress on Medical Quackery; 1963), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great American Fraud: A Series of Articles on the Patent Medicine Evil, Reprinted From Collier's Weekly (ca. 1906), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Quackery Unmasked: or, A Consideration of the Most Prominent Empirical Schemes of the Present Time, With an Enumeration of Some of the Causes Which Contribute to Their Support (Boston: Printed by D. Clapp, 1858), by Dan King
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• Nostrums and quackery. Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions, and modifications, from the Journal of the American Medical Association. (American Medical Association Press, 1912), by American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humbugs of New-York: being a remonstrance against popular delusion. (J. S. Taylor, 1838), by David Meredith Reese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical chaos and crime (M. Kennerley, 1910), by Norman Barnesby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauds and quackery affecting the older citizen : hearings before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1963), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frauds and deceptions affecting the elderly : investigations, findings, and recommendations: 1964 : a report of the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly to the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The medical follies; an analysis of the foibles of some healing cults, including osteopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, and the electronic reactions of Abrams, with essays on the antivivisectionists, health legislation, physical culture, birth control, and rejuvenation (Boni & Liveright, 1925), by Morris Fishbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new medical follies; an encyclopedia of cultism and quackery in these United States, with essays on the cult of beauty, the craze for reduction, rejuvenation, eclecticism, bread and dietary fads, physical therapy, and a forecast as to the physician of the future. (Boni and Liveright, 1927), by Morris Fishbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fads, frauds and physicians (L. MacVeagh, The Dial Press;, 1930), by T. Swann Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traffic in health (Navarre publishing company, inc., 1937), by Charles Solomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular treatise on medical philosophy; or, An exposition of quackery and imposture in medicine. (Read before the Phi beta kappa society of Union College, at its anniversary meeting, and, in conformity with a resolution, pub. as a part of its Transactions.) (Gould and Newman, 1838), by Caleb B. Ticknor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quacks of old London (Brentano's ltd., 1928), by Charles John Samuel Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'exercice de la médecine et le charlatanisme. (J.-B. Baillière, 1899), by P. Brouardel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Material for the health education of the public ... (American medical association, 1910), by American Medical Association. Bureau of Health and Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great American fraud : Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks, in two series, reprinted from Collier's Weekly (American Medical Association, 1907), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• "These cults" : an analysis of the foibles of Dr. Morris Fishbein's "Medical Follies" and an indictment of medical practice in general, with a non-partisan presentation of the case for the drugless schools of healing, comprising essays on homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, the Abrams method, vivisection, physical culture, Christian science, medical publicity, the cost of hospitalization, and state medicine (National Health Foundation, 1926), by Annie Riley Hale, L. Viola Tablet, and National Health Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secrets of specialists (Physicians supply company, 1903), by A. Dale Covey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fads and quackery in healing; an analysis of the foibles of the healing cults (Covici, Friede, 1932), by Morris Fishbein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some quasi-medical institutions (The Dept., 1923), by American Medical Association. Propaganda Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of quackery. (C.C. Thomas, 1961), by Eric Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quacks (Chas. W. Warner, 1934), by Charles W. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The misrepresentation of arthritis drugs and devices in the United States : a report to Committee on Arthritis Advertising, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation by Ruth Walrad. (the Foundation, 1960), by Arthritis Foundation. Arthritis Advertising and Ruth Walrad (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American medical association. (Press of American medical association, 1912), by American Medical Association and Arthur Joseph Cramp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil, quackery and allied matters affecting the public health (American Medical Association, 1921), by American Medical Association and Arthur J. Cramp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive psycho-therapy and quackery. (Houghton Mifflin, 1910), by Robert Means Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nostrum evil ... ([New York, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il ciarlatanismo smascherato, ossia, La medicina apprezzata al giusto suo valore : opera composta per respingere le ingiurie e le calunnie che sono state o potrebbero esser dirette contro la Medicina curativa del chirurgo Le Roy (Tipografica della Minerva, 1842), by Louis Leroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diet and die (Hillman-Curl, inc., 1935), by Carl Malmberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Consumption cures. (Chicago, 1917), by American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The people's doctors : a review (Printed and published for the use of the people, 1830), by Daniel Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical institutes (Propaganda Dept. of the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1917), by American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du charlatanisme médical et des moyens de le réprimer. (V. Masson, 1853), by Gerard Piogey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health frauds and quackery. : Hearings before the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States, Eighty-eighth Congress, second session. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1964), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your money and your life : an FDA catalog of fakes and swindles in the health field. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, 1963), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on conversation and on quackery. (J.W. Parker, 1836), by Philip Bury Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curative action of radium after an address on the progress of radium therapy. (Radium Limited, 1914), by Siegmund Saubermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Radium in the light of recent discovery (radium and rejuvenescence). A presentation of new facts and problems. (Published by the author, 1915), by Paul Börnsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery (Press of American Medical Association, 1911), by Arthur Joseph Cramp and American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposures of quackery; being a series of articles upon, and analyses of, various patent medicines (Savoy Press, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung von deutschen und ausländischen Gesetzen und Verordnungen, die Bekämpfung der Kurpfuscherei und die Ausübung der Heilkunde betr. (Fischer, 1904), by Henry Graack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ärzte und Kurpfuscher ; kulturhistorisch interessante Dokumente aus alten deutschen Zeitungen (17. und 18. Jahrhundert) (A. Langen, 1922), by Eberhard Büchner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposures of quackery; being a series of articles upon ... patent medicines. (The Savoy Press, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical quacks and quackeries (s.n., 1883), by Francis J. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. A. Wilford Hall's hygienic treatment for the cure of disease, preservation of health and the promotion of longevity without medicine (Simpson, 1890), by A. Wilford Hall and J. J. Wesley Simpson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great American fraud : Articles on the nostrum evil and quacks, in two series, reprinted from Collier's weekly (American Medical Association, 1907), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery (S. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1888), by Graham Everitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rectal and anal surgery : with a full description of the secret methods of the itinerant specialists (W.T. Keener, 1892), by Edmund Andrews and Edward Wyllys Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicine, quackery, and disease (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903), by Robert Brudenell Carter, Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. Library, and University of Bristol. Library. History of Medicine Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wahre und falsche Heilkunde. Ein Wort der Aufklärung über den Wert der wissenschaftlichen Medicin gegenüber der Gemeingefährlichkeit der Kurpfuscherei. (Berl., 1899), by Karl Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The funny side of physic : or, the mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice : an exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries (Burr Pub. Co., 1877), by Addison Darre Crabtre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurpfuscher. Eine zeitgemässe Betrachtung. (Deuticke, 1905), by Gaston Vorberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil and religious persecution in the state of New York (Colby & Rich, 1876), by Thomas R. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great American fraud. Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from Collier's. (American Medical Association, 1912), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fake medical devices : an FDA report. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration, 1963), by United States Food and Drug Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epilepsy "cures" and "treatments". (Chicago, 1920), by Journal of the American Medical Association (Firm). Bureau of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nostrums & patent medicines. (North Dakota Agricultural College, 1916), by North Dakota Agricultural College (page images at HathiTrust)
• El problema del charlatanismo médico. ("La Semana Médica", 1910), by Leonidas Jorge Facio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pink pills for pale people. (Dorrance, 1949), by F. William Saul (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth, A.N.Q. : To which is added, The history of a steam doctor. : In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]. (Published by Peter Hill, 94 Broadway., 1833), by Asa Greene, David Murphy, Thomas Snowden, and Peter Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medicina flagellata; or, The doctor scarify'd. Laying open the vices of the faculty, the insignificancy of a great part of their materia medica; with certain rules to discern the true physician from the emperick, and the useful medicine from the noxious and trading physick. With an essay on health, or the power of a regimen. To which is added, a discovery of some remarkable errors in the late writings on the plague (J. Bateman and J. Nicks, 1721) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera scritta ad un cavaliere suo padrone dall'anonima in difesa della professione del salimbanco : coll'aggiunta in fine d'una raccolta di segreti utili, e dilettevoli a qualsivoglia stato di persone. (Per li Nestenus, e Moücke, 1730), by Buonafede Vitali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fixed phlogistic earth. (Glindon, 1801), by Innocenzo della Lena (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cancer quacks (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Walfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1969), by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Abrams and the electron theory (New Century, 1923), by William F. Hudgings and Albert Abrams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nostrums and quackery; articles on the nostrum evil and quackery (Press of American Medical Association, 1911), by Arthur J. Cramp and Journal American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The voice of the quack (United States Government Printing Office, 1990), by Roger W. Miller, United States Department of Health and Human Services, and United States. Food and Drug Administration. Office of Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physician and patient : or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community, by Worthington Hooker, contrib. by Thomas Harrison Burder (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Funny Side of Physic: Or, The Mysteries of Medicine, Presenting the Humorous and Serious Sides of Medical Practice. An Exposé of Medical Humbugs, Quacks, and Charlatans in All Ages and All Countries., by Addison Darre Crabtre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quacks and Grafters, contrib. by George Strohbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Medicina Flagellata; Or, The Doctor Scarify'd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery, by Robert Means Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Character of a quack doctor, or, The Abusive practices of impudent illiterate pretenders to physick exposed (London : Printed for Thomas Jones, 1676) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• De vulgi in medicinâ erroribus. English (London : Printed by W. Wilson for Nicholas Bourne, at the south-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1651), by James Primerose, James Primerose, Robert Wittie, and Thomas Cross (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The harangues or speeches of several famous mountebanks in town and country (London : Printed for T. Warner ..., [1700]), by D. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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