quack-doctor

The dear old tramping quack-doctor, _Oriel's_ foster-father, in particular might well be praised in language that would sound exaggerated.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919 Various

The quack-doctor, continues the writer above mentioned, must have been a fashionable style of man, not meddling much with the poor, and familiar with boudoirs, curing the new disease with new and wondrous remedies.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

At length, a great hubbub arose among the mob; and a fellow, with the brass of a merryandrew, and the gravity of a quack-doctor, pressed through the throng, and approached the beast.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

No doubt a successful quack-doctor had used it in his prosperous days for his wife and progeny; no doubt it had subsequently become the property of a second-class undertaker, and had conveyed many a quartette of cheap clergymen to the funerals of poor relations whose leaking sands of life left no gold-dust behind.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

To cure that temporary illness that carried some genuine distress for the time being, we began adopting expedients and quack-doctor cures, and doing so each time under the guise of an emergency.

A Business Man Speaks Up 1943

[1] Owing to her fathers carelessness, she had been treated by an ignorant quack-doctor, who predicted that the poor child would be crippled in the whole of her right arm, if even nothing worse should happen.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

Leiden was not in attendance, you may be sure, but that quack-doctor Drake.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

Leiden was not in attendance, you may be sure, but that quack-doctor Drake.

Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909

Leiden was not in attendance, you may be sure, but that quack-doctor Drake.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

If she does not, as is now the case, the young man without that improvement which results from passing through a regular course of education, studies a profession and enters the world as a quack-doctor or pettyfogging lawyer.

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908