quack remedy

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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 Lawrence, Robert Means

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 Rutherford, Mark

For going from one quack remedy to another?

From Septimus by Locke, William John

Nostrum meant our own, then a medicine not known by other physicians, then a quack remedy.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

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 Nicolay, John George