quacksalver

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To Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

"Pshaw! he is a quacksalver, and mountebank, and beggar."

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

"In other words," said Tressilian, "you were Jack Pudding to a quacksalver."

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Reade, Charles