quack remedy

The Romans of old, who drove nails into the walls of the Temple of Jupiter, in the hope of warding off the Plague, employed thereby a quack remedy.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence

For going from one quack remedy to another?

From Septimus by William John Locke

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

It is a quack remedy; no M. D. prescribes it.

From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade