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[191:1] _The Lancet_, vol. ii; 1880.

[192:1] _The Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lxxvii; November, 1807.

[193:1] _Anatomy of Melancholy_, vol. ii, p. 132.

[194:1] _The Chicago Inter-Ocean._

[195:1] _Boston Transcript_, March 10, 1900.

[196:1] _Music and Morals._

[199:1] _The Spectator_, August 18, 1714.

CHAPTER XVIII

QUACKS AND QUACKERY

Quackery and the love of being quacked, are in human nature as
weeds are in our fields.
DR. J. BROWN, _Spare Hours_.

They are Quack-salvers, Fellowes that live by senting oyles
and drugs.
BEN JONSON, _Volpone_, Act II, Scene 2.

These, like quacks in Medicine, excite the malady to profit by
the cure, and retard the cure to augment the fees.
WASHINGTON IRVING.

Here also they have, every night in summer, a world of
Montebanks, _Ciarlatani_, and such stuff, who together with
their remedies, strive to please the People with their little
Comedies, Popet-plays and songs.
R. LASSELS, _Voy. Ital._: 1698.

_Le monde n'a jamais manque de charlatans; cette science, de
tout temps, fut en professeurs tres fertile._
LA FONTAINE.

He took himself to be no mean Doctour, who being guilty of no
Greek, and being demanded why it was called an _hectic_ fever;
'because,' saith he, 'of an _hecking_ cough, which ever
attendeth that disease.'
THOMAS FULLER, _The Holy State_.

Man is a dupable animal. Quacks in Medicine, quacks in
Religion, and quacks in Politics know this and act upon that
knowledge. There is scarcely anyone who may not, like a trout,
be taken by tickling.
ROBERT SOUTHEY.

Quack doctors are indeed pompous, self-sufficient, affectedly
solemn, venal and unfeeling with a vengeance.
VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D.

If Satan has ever succeeded in compressing a greater amount
of concentrated mendacity into one set of human bodies, above
every other description, it is in the advertising quacks.
_Pacific Medical and Surgical Journ