quack remedy
Example Sentences
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Means to enforce and carry out the Constitution ought not to be ridiculed by calling it a quack remedy.
From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay
The once blithe-hearted and enlightened Gertrude was changing into an irritable, superstitious woman, whose whole time was given to experimenting upon her ailment with every quack remedy she came across.
From Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
All its failings, infinitely more complicated than those of the body, were grouped as "sin," and for these there was one quack remedy.
From Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott by Mark Rutherford
For going from one quack remedy to another?
From Septimus by William John Locke
Nostrum meant our own, then a medicine not known by other physicians, then a quack remedy.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
