Quacks and quackery
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Quacks and quackery -- Early works to 1800
- Quacks and quackery -- England
- Quacks and quackery -- United States
- Charlatans
- Quackery
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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)
- Cautions and Advice to the Public, Respecting Some Abuses in Medicine, Through the Malpractices of Quacks or Pretenders to the Medical and Chirurgical Arts (London: Printed for the author, and sold by H.D. Symonds, ca. 1787), by William Jackson (page images at NIH)
- 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)
- 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
- The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, by James Harvey Young (HTML at quackwatch.com)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Impostors and imposture- Famous Impostors (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by Bram Stoker
- The Humbugs of the World (New York: Carleton, 1866), by P. T. Barnum
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, by Charles Mackay
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (second edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (HTML at econlib.org)
- Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (2-volume edition, 1852), by Charles Mackay (Gutenberg text)
- Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. (New York: the author, 1835), by G. Vale (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Three Impostors, Translated (With Notes and Comments) From a French Manuscript of the Work Written in the Year 1716, With a Dissertation on the Original Treatise, and a Bibliography of the Various Editions (editorship attributed to Briggs; 1904), ed. by Samuel Briggs (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Trick Methods of Eusapia Paladino (reprinted from Reformed Church Review, 1910), by Stanley Lefevre Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Celebrated Claimants, From Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1874) (Gutenberg text)
- Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (electronic edition), by James Randi (HTML at randi.org)
- Caraboo: A Narrative of a Singular Imposition, by John Mathew Gutch (HTML with commentary at resologist.net)
- The Worldlings (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by Neil Munro (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Brat Farrar (c1949), by Josephine Tey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- El Prisionero de Zenda (in Spanish; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Anthony Hope, trans. by Juan L. Iribas (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
- The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
- The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1898), by Anthony Hope, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Ince (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), by Mark Twain, illust. by James Mapes Dodge and Louis Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
- Room 13, by Edgar Wallace (illustrated HTML with commentary at freeread.com.au)
- The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1894), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- The Sin That Was His (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1917), by Frank L. Packard
- The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of ****, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar, a Reputed Native of Formosa, Written by Himself, in Order to be Published After His Death (London: Printed for R. Davis, et al., 1765), by George Psalmanazar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races; An Answer to "Miscegenation" (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864), by John H. Van Evrie
- The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aequanimitas; With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine (second edition, with 3 additional addresses; London: H. K. Lewis, 1914), by William Osler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Alabama Student, and Other Biographical Essays, by William Osler (HTML at jcmi.edu)
- Medical Essays, 1842-1882, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
- Medical Inquiries and Observations (second American edition, revised and expanded, 4 volumes; Philadelphia: J. Conrad and Co. et al., 1805), by Benjamin Rush
- Nature in Disease, Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays; To Which Are Added Miscellaneous Writings, Chiefly on Medical Subjects (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Jacob Bigelow
- Warfare in the Human Body: Essays on Method, Malignity, Repair and Allied Subjects (New York: E. P. Dutton Co., c1921), by Morley Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Elephant Man, and Other Reminiscences (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1923), by Frederick Treves (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Hell in an Uproar: A Satyr, Occasioned By a Scuffle Which Lately Happened Between the Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority (London: Printed for T. Watkins, 1750), by Richard Burridge (page images at NIH)
- Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle
- Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)
- Aphorisms, by Hippocrates, trans. by Francis Adams (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2019), ed. by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, and Heiner Fangerau (page images at JSTOR)
- Medical Behavioral Science: A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology in Medicine (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1963), by Marion Pearsall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Makers of Modern Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1907), by James J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Waste-Basket Surgery (Philadelphia et al.: Judson Press, 1930), by Gordon Stifler Seagrave (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Medical Profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850: An Historical Narrative With Original Documents Relating to the Profession, Including Some Brief Biographies (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1894), by William Canniff (multiple formats at archive.org)
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