quack remedy

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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)

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

One must create an impression, if only with a quack remedy.

From The Seven Secrets by Le Queux, William

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

The principle I now urge is the old one, namely, that the usual mark of a quack remedy is the neglect of the moral aspect of a question.

From Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies by Stephen, Leslie, Sir