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.