quack remedy

How to use quack remedy in a sentence

• Means to enforce and carry out the Constitution ought not to be ridiculed by calling it a quack remedy.

  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 | John George Nicolay and John Hay

• He suffered from an intestinal disorder, aggravated by his addiction to some quack remedy.

  Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work | Stephen Samuel Stratton

• May I here mention en passant a harmless old quack remedy—the common practice of smoking out the microbe.

  Vagaries | Axel Munthe