quacksalver

How to use quacksalver in a sentence

• Francis Quicksilver, would God thou hadst turned quacksalver, rather than run into these dissolute and lewd courses!

  The Works of John Marston | John Marston

• I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.

  The Fair Maid of Perth | Sir Walter Scott

• Am I not yclept quacksalver by those that come not near me, and wizard by those I heal?

  The Cloister and the Hearth | Charles Reade