The Quack Doctor
Panacean powders, pills, potions and pamphlets, as advertised in historical newspapers.
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- More Medical Curiosities
- Cutting for the Stone
- A Woman who Voided Worms by the Urethra
- Means of Restoring a Drunken Person
- A New Method of Removing Ascarides
- Observations on Leeches, and their Use
- The Boy Who Resembles a Frog
- Mr Rackstrow’s Museum
- Death after eating a large quantity of cucumbers
- Sir Hans Sloane’s Liniment for the Eyes
- A suppurating head injury cured by trepanning
- An Extraordinary Mental Delusion
- Live lizard found in girl’s stomach
- A curious experiment in galvanism
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Latest blog posts
- Ali Ahmed’s Treasures of the Desert
- Anti-Stiff – strengthens the muscles
- Book Review: Shropshire Doctors & Quacks, by Richard Moore
- Happy Christmas from The Quack Doctor
- The Mormon Elder’s Damiana Wafers – the most powerful invigorant ever produced
- If the patient is not alarmed
- The tracks of a spider whose legs had been dipped in ink
- No glister-pipe, bum-peeping apothecary
- Book Review: What’s Up With Max? Medikidz Explain Asthma
- To Short Persons
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Doctor Botherum. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1800. [Published: 6 March 1800]
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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