quacksalver
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To Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver."
From Time Magazine Archive
The bolster wrapped round his nose and the two ends kissed behind his head, and his forehead resounded, and had he been Goliath, or Julius Caesar, instead of an old quacksalver, down he had gone.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
The bolster wrapped round his nose and the two ends kissed behind his head, and his forehead resounded, and had he been Goliath, or Julius Cæsar, instead of an old quacksalver, down he had gone.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
I have only to add that the union of the poisoner, the quacksalver, the alchemist, and the astrologer in the same person was familiar to the pretenders to the mystic sciences.
From Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
